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TI: So you said your father came back, he started working at the Nippu Jiji, and so then you stopped working there.

KT: Yeah, I stopped.

TI: So what did you do then?

KT: No, after he... I was working until he retired. He said he's gonna retire, he's gonna open his own shop. So until then, I worked for the Times, Hawaii Times. And then when he opened his shop, I quit and I worked with him. I started with him.

TI: And so tell me a little bit about his business. It's a printing business he did?

KT: Yeah, it's a printing business. The main purpose he opened is because he wanted to print a Japanese newspaper. That was his plan, I'm quite sure. But owning newspaper doesn't go, so he went into printing. And then he got the first offset machine that came out. And when he bought that, he needed someone to run, so he called my brother, the older brother, to come, and he did it. He started the offset machine. And then, to let the public know, he ran the offset machine, how to run and everything, in the public, I think it was Mamo Theater, to show what a printing can be done. That's how my brother got involved, and I stuck with my father until I retired fifty years later.

TI: Oh, so the businesses lasted a long time.

KT: Yeah, it's still going, although it's not making money, but there it is. It's not making money at all. [Laughs]

TI: But it's a family business, though, still?

KT: Yeah, it's still, it's still... I'm still there. I'm not there, but I'm still in that.

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