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BY: And so what school did you go to?

JK: Beacon Hill Elementary School, which was a block away from my house, which was really nice and close.

BY: Uh-huh. And how did you like school?

JK: You know, I guess I didn't like or dislike school, you just went in those days.

BY: And in those days, what was the racial ethnic makeup of the neighborhood that you lived in?

JK: Oh, it was white.

BY: White?

JK: Yeah.

BY: Were there other Japanese families or Japanese Americans?

JK: Not that I could recall.

BY: How about at the school? Were there Japanese students?

JK: No, I don't recall that. But later on, I went to Franklin High School, and then there were some other Japanese there. But, you know, I think mainly it was, my friends were all white.

BY: Okay, all right. And did you ever go to Japanese language school?

JK: No, I didn't.

BY: And besides the church, were there any other Japanese American activities that your family participated in?

JK: No, church was really a mainstay for our family.

BY: Okay. So you went to Beacon Hill Elementary and then Franklin High School. And what kinds of activities were you involved in when you were in high school, do you recall?

JK: Well, they had a sports, women's sports club or something like that. I participated in that and I think that's about it. Because I lived so far away, it was always, you were trying to walk the two or three miles home, so I didn't stay a lot for activities after school.

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