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BF: This is an interview of Judge William Marutani. The interviewers are Becky Fukuda, and Gary Kawaguchi of the Japanese American National Museum. This is a Densho interview conducted on September 11, 1997, and we are actually in UCLA at the Redress Conference. Anything else? Judge Marutani, are you currently still sitting on the...

WM: No, I resigned a number of years ago, to return to private practice of law.

BF: Oh, so you're practicing...

WM: I had been, yeah, I practiced civil law in Philadelphia.

BF: Do you mind if I ask how old you are?

WM: Seventy-four.

BF: And still practicing.

WM: Why not? [Laughs]

BF: I'd be tired. [Laughs] I'm actually, I'm actually a lawyer myself; although, I took time off from practicing to work on this project, so, it seems like a long time. How did you get to Philadelphia? Not a lot of Nikkei there.

WM: Do you mean why I went there? Went there to hopefully open up a business, start a business there.

BF: When did you re-, when did you move there?

WM: That was in 1954.

BF: Okay. Okay. So it was after camp and...

WM: After camp, after military service.

BF: Okay.

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