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Title: Hitoshi H. Kajihara Interview
Narrator: Hitoshi H. Kajihara
Interviewer: Tom Ikeda
Location: University of California, Los Angeles
Date: September 11, 1997
Densho ID: denshovh-khitoshi-01-0012

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TI: Okay, Harry, I now I want to bring you up to date, to actually today, and for you to look back in hindsight and to think if... when you think of what happened with redress, whether or not you would have thought there should have been a different way of going about the whole process?

HK: No, I think that was the right way. There's no... would have been the same thing. I think, you know, in regards to, there were some people who didn't like to go in the commission route. But that commission enabled us to have this government issued document saying that an injustice was done. And so, for example, just picture the, we asking for $20,000, or whatever it is, that would, the Congress would never buy anything like that. But if the government says, "Yes, we did something wrong," then... so we have the document forever, that justice denied document. I'm so overjoyed, because there it is -- a hundred years from now, people that get involved in this thing will refer to it. And so, no other way, this is it, the correct way.

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