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TI: You may have been too young to remember or have memories of this, but after about... well, early 1943 they had the leave clearance form, the "loyalty questionnaire." Do you recall any of that happening or any discussions or any tensions or anything about that?

RO: I don't as a child but as a researcher I ran across a lot. I ran across my father's but no, as a child I had no idea that that was going on.

TI: Yeah, see unless you were probably involved with it --

RO: Right, I was too young.

TI: Okay.

RO: But I did do a lot of research on it.

TI: Yeah, and I am too. But it's just such a fascinating topic in terms of how divisive that became for the community.

RO: It was terrible to do that.

TI: And just how for many of the people when I ask about it, was just how confusing and ambiguous and how they answered it and it made such a big difference later on.

RO: Absolutely. I think I heard this later when I was an adult, that my mother was thinking of going back to Japan. this was not the America that she thought it was so, yeah, she wanted to go back.

TI: But your parents, it sounds like they both, in your research answered "yes-yes" and stayed in Camp III in Poston.

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