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Title: Tokio Yamane Interview
Narrator: Tokio Yamane
Interviewers: Sachiko Takita-Ishii, Yoko Murakawa, Noriko Kawakami
Location: Japan
Date: May 23, 2004
Densho ID: denshovh-ytokio-01-0024

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[Translated from Japanese]

I2: The loyalty questionnaire was administered in Jerome. How did you answer the questions?

TY: I told them I did not need to answer them. It was absurd. Why now? Why did we have to do it then? I didn't get it. I would not say yes or no. I told them I was going to ignore the questions.

I1: So, they put down "no" for your answer?

TY: Right. There were a soldier and one or two Japanese there.

I1: Interpreter? Or someone else...

TY: I don't know, YMCA? Or JACL? Anyway, there were two there.

I2: In Jerome?

I1: While you were working on the questionnaire?

TY: Yes. Then, the Japanese person stamped the paper.

I2: It could have been someone from JACL.

I1: You were not aware that they put down "no" for the answers then?

TY: I didn't know. I didn't know.

I1: You found out for the first time when your sister sent it to you?

TY: Yes.

I2: So, you didn't know why you were sent to Tule Lake.

I1: Were you intending to go back to Japan?

TY: I made my intention very clear. I told them that I would like to go back to Japan. I told them that I had no intention to become an American soldier.

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