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MN: So, and '43 is when the controversial "loyalty questionnaire" came out. Was this an issue with you, the questionnaire? Did you talk amongst your friends?

JK: This is... yeah, what started a whole controversy. My in-law, Nob Kawai, came from Gila. My brother-in-law became president of the student body, Ted Fujioka. And that's where we had problems in the family.

MN: So Nobu was, I think, before the war, the president of the Pasadena JACL?

JK: Yes.

MN: And he came to Heart Mountain from Gila River because of the problems he had at Gila River? Were you at any of the meetings where Nobu Kawai spoke in opposition to the Fair Play Committee?

JK: No.

MN: Did you ever clash with the Fair Play Committee?

JK: I sat in on the meetings.

MN: But did you get into any physical fights with them?

JK: No.

MN: Do you remember the fliers that the Fair Play Committee put up in the bathrooms?

JK: Oh, yeah.

MN: What were your feelings towards them at the time?

JK: Well, we just said it's one man's opinion. Well, they were all my friends, too, you know, my age group. Emi and... in fact, Frank Emi and I were good friends.

MN: Wasn't his sister on the Sentinel staff also? Kaoru?

JK: Yes. Was she advertising? But anyway...

MN: Did you ever go to any of those meetings?

JK: Yes.

MN: What were those meetings like?

JK: Well, heated. You hear too many one-sided ideas.

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