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TI: Well what, while your aunt and you talked about that, about your mother being in the United States, you, as a child, did you think that you were going to go back to the United States or did you think you were going to stay in Japan?

SK: Well, I, I figured that one of these days when I, when I'm an adult, that I would like to go back to the United States. Because I, I felt that since I was born there, that I should be with my family in the United States. Not with the rest of my family in Japan.

TI: So did you also think that that was something that you and your sibling, your other siblings would do that, too? That you...

SK: Well I know that my younger brother felt the same way. I don't know about my sisters. But my brother, younger brother -- and he came to the United States years later, after I had finished high school, I believe, and was working with me on the same vegetable farm run by Issei. So he knew how to drive a truck. And then about a year before Pearl Harbor, I think it was same year, 1941, possibly, he went back to Japan to straighten out some family affairs and then come right back. He got caught in Japan throughout World War II.

TI: That's interesting. Let's go back to Japan in these early days. Any other memories? Did you enjoy living in Japan during this period?

SK: Oh, yes, I did. I liked the, some of the group travels that we did to various places for say, undokai, athletic meets that we competed against other schools. I always liked going to the big city of Okayama, whose lights we could see at nighttime, and we'd go to parks and eat all the manjus and all the goodies, you know.

TI: Those are fond memories.

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