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AH: Now I want to get back to the period after the war, because it's shadowy in my mind of what went on. I mean I know about that interval of Omura being at the paper, but then after that, it sounds like it's a little shadowy in your mind, too, right?

SH: Yes.

AH: Because for one thing, you were removed from living where the paper was being put out, and then not too many years down the line, you were moving to Seattle.

SH: Right. But before that, our living quarters, too, we had to move in. We used to live in the back of the newspaper, and as the newspaper took over, then we had to move out of that house, that area, and we had to go to find places to live. And there were about two or three moves that were made before my father and mother settled in their last home. And so there was a period during which the family was quite transient going from one area to another, because we had a pretty large family. Then when my father came home they lived in another place, and then that was just a rental, and they had to go to, until they finally went into their final home. So they were not staying at the newspaper then, and we were not staying at the newspaper. So as far as it being like a home there, it became just like a workplace, I think. And so after school I would go over there and work and then go home.

AH: Did your husband ever say anything to you about allegedly subversive materials that were published in the Japanese section of the newspaper, things that really were purportedly the reason why your father was picked up and then interned? Was there anything that he ever said about that, that he suspected particular journalists were planting things in there or anything? No?

SH: No.

AH: And was that matter ever addressed within the family, if there really were these questionable things that were put in the newspaper?

SH: No, because we didn't know anything about that.

AH: How much did your dad have to do with editing of the Japanese section of the newspaper? Was he just the publisher, or was he an editor, too?

SH: I do think that in the beginning he was a publisher and editor. But then after the others came in from California, I think that it wasn't completely his role.

AH: And you're suggesting that he didn't have much to do with it after the war, then, when he got released.

SH: No. I don't think he had much to do with it. And if he did, after it started to lose money, I think, then they had to let people go. And I think then he started to work himself.

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