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TI: So anything else before we go to the war years? Is there anything else growing up in Hilo that you want to talk about? Any, like, any interesting events in the family or in the community that sort of stand out?

HH: Well, there's lots of events in the community. It's pretty well-organized. They have, they had a Japanese Chamber of Commerce, and they had... they had groups getting together. You always had a show going on, either with the church or some community organization, but you had quite a few things going on.

TI: Okay, good. Now, as you got older, did you have a job? Did you have a paying job?

HH: Well, when, yeah, when I was older it was wartime, yeah.

TI: But before the war, did you have any, any jobs?

HH: Oh, no. I went to school only.

TI: How about summertime? Did you have to do something in the summertime?

HH: No. We had, my father was a newspaper man. I used to help my brother deliver newspaper.

TI: You know, in thinking about your father... so before the war, how did people treat him? What was his position in the community?

HH: Well, I think he was well-known because he could speak well. And he was active in church, in his church, and always took leadership role, and organized a lot of stuff.

TI: And what church did you go to?

HH: Taishoji.

TI: Okay. And this was a...

HH: It's a Buddhist church.

TI: Buddhist. And Zen. Zen?

HH: Zen.

TI: Zen.

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