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TI: Let's go back to your life a little bit. I want to get that picture in terms of, so when you're growing up, what school did you go to?

MH: I went to the Rainier School.

TI: Okay. And so this was closer to, I'm thinking more like the Seattle University area, so yeah, I guess it was, it was on Jefferson, wasn't it, the Rainier School? Maybe. I'm trying to think.

MH: I'm not sure. I know it was two blocks from where we lived, and we lived at 2419 Jackson.

TI: Okay, 24th and Jackson. Okay. So Rainier School, and how about church? Did you --

MH: We belonged to the Japanese Baptist Church.

TI: Japanese Baptist.

MH: In fact, my grandmother, when she first came to the States, was converted to Christianity.

TI: At the Japanese Baptist?

MH: Yeah.

TI: And how about Japanese school? Did you go to Japanese school?

MH: Oh yeah.

TI: And which Japanese school did you go to?

MH: Well, originally my two brothers and I went to this private Japanese school, but my brothers are such mischiefs they got into trouble and we were kicked out of that private school. So we had to go to the big Japanese school. You know where?

TI: On Weller Street, that one?

MH: Yeah, (...) sensei was Nakagawa-san. Yeah.

TI: Now where was the private Japanese school? Do you remember?

MH: I don't know. It was a little ways away. I don't remember the name of it.

TI: Or tell me, what was the difference from the smaller private Japanese school and the larger one? What was, in terms of the teachers, the teaching, what was the difference?

MH: I don't really know. It was, I don't know. My brothers had, were real, the two of 'em, when they got together they were real mischiefs.

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