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SY: Let's go back to, not back, but up to the point of being back in Seattle after camp and you were resettling, and you said that the environment was hostile. What kind of experiences did you have that reflected the hostility of the community?

YM: Well, we were Japs anyway. Japs are Japs, always a Jap.

SY: So people always called you Jap?

YM: They wrote on your window a Jap, or they wrote in their house a Jap, but they -- not in front of your face because when Henry started the studio, he had to go to the wholesale house to pick up. They never called him a Jap.

SY: He picked up his...

YM: His wholesale thing, and one thing I am ever grateful for is Eastman Kodak, the new... what do you call them? He was so good to Henry, he was very kind, and he helped Henry in many ways. If he ran out of folders, he would get it for Henry and bring it. Even if it was Saturday, he would bring it to Henry and that was some kind of kindness you people don't do.

Yukiko M. Interview - Copyright © 1998 Densho. All Rights Reserved. - <End Segment 34>