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SY: So during this time of raising Kako and Henry working at the photography studio, what community events did Henry become involved in?

YM: Oh, he got involved in everything. Oh, in the first place, Shizuoka so he was a Shizuoka member, and he was greatly involved in the church. Oh, and then they had this Amateur Photographers Association, and they were really good photographers. But they were mostly amateurs, and they were not interested in taking... what you call? Photographs like Henry did. They were interested in going out and sit for seven hours or eight hours, take scenery pictures. And one was Dr. Koike.

SY: So they were mostly Japanese?

YM: Oh, yeah. They were all Japanese and then once a year they used to have a exhibition of that, and then I think Dr. Koike used to -- even among the hakujins, he was well known and he got prizes.

SY: What other events, community activities, was he involved in?

YM: Well, we joined... Henry and I joined Dale Carnegie. I forgot the title of that class. He thought we should both learn how to speak better English or something, and we joined that. Oh, I don't know. He was in all kinds of organizations because I remember many a time he would come home for supper, then he would be rushing off to go to some meeting or other and so Kako and I were left alone quite a bit.

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