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TM: And anyway, that was 1940, I went to Japan and those day, fifteen days to cross one way. So on the boat was one month, see. Take a long time go to Japan. I come back end of... December or first of January. Anyway, that time I come back. Yeah. Well, then '41. That's when the war start. And come to think of it now, when I went to Japan in 1940, oh, already in Japan everything was cut. No gasoline for public use. They used charcoal for the bus, slow, and geez, you know. Smell up in back. Well, there is taxi, the car is in the garage, but no service because no gasoline. And at breakfast, not so bad. I think all is [Inaudible], I guess, the gohan, and misoshiru and then one piece of dried fish or something and otsukemono, but noontime come, they call daiyoshoku, you know. They don't serve you the gohan. All you have to have udon or soba and all that kind of stuff. They say that daiyoshoku. Well, that much, they have to save to the army supply. How in the world they can win a war? That's what I think now, and people, big shots, should know that. Anyway, they tried everything for the armed service: gasoline and food, and everything.

AI: So Japan was already...

TM: Oh, yeah. Big shot in Japan, they knew it.

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