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TI: And your older brother, did he always stay in Japan or did he ever come to --

SK: Yes, he did come to Hawaii at age ten or eleven, I guess, and he stayed here for about six years, then he said that he preferred education in Japan so he went back to Japan and graduated from Nihon University. And he was in the Japanese diplomatic corps and worked in Shanghai and then the war broke out. But he visited Hawaii (once) when he was a university student. He represented Japan as one of the students at an international students conference in California someplace, and on his way back to Japan he stopped over here.

TI: How did the family... was the family pretty proud of him that he got a college education in Japan, and he was with the diplomatic corps? That sounds pretty impressive.

SK: Yeah, that's right. But my parents always said, "We're very sorry that we deprived you" -- myself, my brother and my sisters -- of higher education because they sent all their earnings to Japan to educate my brother. [Laughs]

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