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EG: Okay, and then in 1950 you returned to America again with your family.

TM: Yes. I had to finish or complete the studies at the University of Washington.

EG: To get your second your degree.

TM: So that I could get my degree. And I did come back and complete it.

EG: And you settled in, in Seattle as, as home. Where did you, where did you settle in Seattle when you came back?

TM: Well, we first, we didn't know where to go. So we were living in an apartment not too far from here. Then after about, I guess about a half a year, we bought a house in Lake City. And we lived in that house for about eight years or so. And then had another house built a little bit north of that. And we stayed there about thirty years and now we live in condominium. [Laughs]

EG: What did you do when you came back to Seattle? First you went back to University, University of Washington to finish.

TM: I went back to the university. I finished my studies. I got my degree, and well, that was 1950, the jobs were hard to come by. And so I thought maybe I would go to graduate school to get master. So I started, and then in the meantime I took a vacation and went to California. My wife is from, her folks were from, were in San Francisco and I came back and there was a job waiting for me. So I quit going to school and took the job.

EG: Now, your family is a daughter and son. Let's see... how old would they have been when you came back? They would have been, what, school age when you returned to Seattle -- the children?

TM: When we came back in 1950, our daughter was four years old. Son wasn't born yet.

EG: Oh, okay. Okay. And what was your job, the job that was waiting for you?

TM: It was a import-export company in downtown Seattle. It was the biggest import-export house. And we were doing business with the Far East, mainly Japan, and Korea, and Hong Kong. And after about five years of that, people in Japan that I met while I was there wrote me saying they were going to open an office in Seattle -- that was Mitsubishi trading company -- and that they would like to have me work for them. And so I left that American import-export house and went to work for Mitsubishi in 1956. And I worked there for thirty years and retired.

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