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TM: And on the USA, when I was raising the kids, first three was pretty close together. And during in haiseki, Bellevue there is a no Nihon gakko. But I don't know when they started again, but around '25-'6 they started a Nihon gakko again. And first it was Danny Hill. They had a Nihon gakko. I don't know if you remember or not. [Looks at Tosh Ito]

TI: No, no I don't remember.

TM: After that, you started school in that...

TI: Kokaido.

TM: Kokaido...

TI: Kokaido, yeah.

TM: Next to Kokaido.

TI: Yeah, next to Kokaido.

TM: They built a Nihon gakko there. And that time Mr. Tajitsu, and Takekawa sensei, and Dutch no mother, they came to teach. [Ed. note: Dutch Takekawa's mother. Tom Matsuoka's daughter Rae is married to Dutch.] But myself, I never send the kids to Nihon gakko because Kaz is dai ni setsu, too. We were half and half, see. We talk half in Nihongo and half English at home. We never thought about that Nihongo and so they never went to Nihon gakko. That's my place. Well, but she, my wife, want to, kids to go to church. They went to Congregational Church. [Inaudible] So kids went to church all right, when they were kids, but never went to Nihon gakko. And now, even they after grown up, we don't say too much about the haiseki and what we done when we were young. We didn't talk to the kids too much, but top three kids, they know what Nihonjinhaiseki, especially during the wartime.

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