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LH: So not only do you work on, not only do you work on the Bainbridge Island Japanese Community Projects, but you're speaking on your own to these kids groups?

FK: Yeah. Not only, not particularly just by myself, there are others community members that will go with me sometimes. But usually I show the slides and do the lecture and then they help answer questions.

LH: Oh, but this is as part of BIJAC?

FK: Well sort of...

LH: Sort of.

FK: Yeah, I mean. I do pretty much on my own and on my own time and stuff. But it's something, it's something that I really, it's a passion for me as far as doing that, because I, most of the kids there and most of the teachers there have, have so very little knowledge about that aspect of American history, of, of what happened to us and so forth. And, and if they do, it's more either what they read, they haven't really talked to anybody that's been through it. And that's when it's nice to have older people to come with me because they've, they've got a, real personal experiences as far as they can, it's not only hearsay or memory, but it's, it's also things they've actually gone through. So, it's nice to have them come, but... yeah.

LH: Now, was the, you do this locally just on Bainbridge or do you travel?

FK: I've done it on Bainbridge, I've done it in Edmonds School District, North Seattle. I've done it in Steilacoom down by Tacoma. I did once at Seattle U. I did it once at the University of Washington. So it varies. It's just depends who calls me and if I have time.

LH: I see, I see.

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