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AI: So you were -- I was going to ask you about what the living condition was like there at Barneston.

TM: In the sawmill, well, it's okay. Like my dad have a family, pretty good. Living condition is all right. But I think it was eight, eight hour, work eight hour day. I think eight hour day, but noontime, I don't remember the half an hour or one hour. And in Barneston, it's a Japanese camp at top of the hill. You have to rush, climb that hill to go in to the camp and eat, and then you have to go down to start work. Single men, and they had a boarding house.

AI: Is that where you stayed, at the boarding house?

TM: Yeah. I stayed with the father and mother. I had, Dad, Dad already built a small house, one-room house for me and I stayed there. And well, that's the one that I told before that my brother John, that girl is meet. That's family that was next door. They had a bathroom, bath place, you know. It's called furoya. Anyway, that Mrs. Ikata was making furo every day. Yeah. Oh, so the living condition was not so bad.

AI: Are these some pictures of... does this look like the area you lived? [Shows photographs of the Japanese camp at Barneston]

TM: Yeah. I think Ikata-san was here. And I don't know about this house, but anyway right next, that's where my dad's house was. And one end was lean or something and then another single man was there, Mr. Maeda, and he had boy, too, around my age.

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