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TL: Was, did JACL have any sort of program to help with adjusting after the war, was this more an individual effort on his part?

YB: Well, being a lawyer, I think that he just took it on his own and really worked at it. What he was doing for the Chinese, I don't know, but they'd call us 3:00, 4:00, in the morning, "Arai, get up. Come over and have breakfast," or that midnight snack. We're sound asleep. [Laughs] But he used to help the Chinese people a lot, too.

TL: So they'd invite him down to the restaurant to have some food.

YB: And they usually eating about 2:00, 3:00 in the morning. And he'll get up early in the morning, but he likes to go to sleep and stay asleep. And I'm awake about that time coloring or something, but he says, "No, I'm too tired." He says he won't go. And if it's earlier or later in the morning, not 3:00, he'll go, but then they call him at such hours. He says, "When do you people go to sleep?" He says to them. [Laughs]

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