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TI: Today is September 20, 2019. We're in San Francisco at your brother's home doing the interview. And Yuka, I'm not sure of your last name.
YM: Murakami.
TI: Yuka Murakami is on camera, and then co-interviewing is Yoko Nishimura. So this is an interview that's being done both with the Japanese American National Museum and Densho, so this is kind of a fun partnership that we're doing. So I'm just going to start from your very beginning. Can you tell me where you were born?
JN: Yes. Callao, Peru, South America.
TI: And when were you born?
JN: 1936, May 23rd.
TI: So that makes you, what, eighty-three?
JN: Eighty-three.
TI: Eighty-three years old. What was the full name given to you at birth?
JN: Jimmy... I'm sorry, Kazushige.
TI: Uh-huh, Kazushige...
JN: Naganuma.
TI: Any other, like did you have a Spanish name?
JN: Yes, our godmother gave us a Spanish name, and my name is Jose Antonio.
TI: I know you as Jimmy, how did you get the name Jimmy?
JN: Jimmy, well, when you go to school, teacher couldn't pronounce my name Kazushige. And I said, gee, I'm having trouble, so I just picked "Jimmy" from somewhere, I don't know.
TI: So you chose your name?
JN: I chose my own name.
TI: And when you say going to school, what school was this?
JN: This is grammar school, Pacific Heights.
TI: Okay, in San Francisco.
JN: San Francisco.
TI: Okay, got it. And so ever since then you were named, you called yourself Jimmy.
JN: Yes.
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