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TI: Going back to your life, you said you stayed at the Japanese school for one year.

WS: Where?

TI: The Japanese language school, you lived there one year. Where did you go after that?

WS: We bought a house, bought a house on Sixteenth Avenue.

TI: Over by Providence Hospital, nearby there?

WS: Yeah, fairly close.

TI: Good, okay. And so you worked as a janitor, then you worked at the St. Vincent de Paul, then you worked at the Seattle Lighting and Fixture, and then the Seattle Engineering Department, those are the jobs?

WS: Yeah.

TI: Okay. And how long did you work with the City of Seattle?

WS: Thirty-five years.

TI: Besides work, what other activities did you do after the war? Things like, did you do things like fishing or what other hobbies did you have?

WS: It's kind of hard to say.

ES: Dad, you were always building boats, remember, your own boats?

WS: Yeah. I built about three different boats.

TI: So, Warren, tell me about boat building. This is from scratch, you would build a boat?

WS: Yeah.

TI: How did you learn how to build a boat?

WS: Read the book. [Laughs]

TI: [Laughs] And were these boats, you used these boats by yourself? So would go out in the Puget Sound with these boats?

WS: Well, put it on the trailer and then I went out fishing with it. And I would go fishing over to Seque and Neah Bay and also Westport. Also I made myself a canoe out of a wood strip, that thickness about that, pull 'em together like that.

TI: Oh, so you kind of weave 'em together?

WS: Yeah.

TI: Interesting.

WS: I still have that in my garage. And then anyway, I used to go fishing quite a bit.

TI: Okay. And I just want to finish off kind of, or talk about your family. So you mentioned, I think, your oldest daughter was Grace?

WS: The what?

TI: Your oldest daughter was named Grace or Hiroko?

WS: Hiroko Grace.

TI: And then you had a son?

WS: [Points to ES off camera] Masaru, Ed.

TI: Okay, and any other children?

WS: And then my present... Kiyoka passed away, and then I got married to this present wife. And my present wife's name is... what's her name now?

TI: We can have Ed help.

ES: Kanemi.

WS: Kanemi.

TI: And children with the second wife?

WS: Yeah. The boy's name is... what is that?

ES: Koji.

WS: Koji. And then my daughter, the youngest daughter's name is Junko.

TI: Good.

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