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DG: Tell me a little bit about your preparations. I mean, did you think the war was going to be coming?

MM: My father was saying, kore, when he used to read that shimbun, he says, "Kore, senso ga hajimari so da ne." I know that he said that.

DG: And why did he think that?

MM: I don't know, reading the Japanese newspaper, I guess.

DG: What was happening that he...

MM: I don't know. Do you know what made Papa say that?

AM: What?

MM: "Nihon ga ne, Nihon to senso ga hajimaru ne."

AM: (...) Father and I used to say, eventually they have to come to a clash.

DG: And what was happening?

AM: Yeah.

MM: Well, like... like hayaku, Nihon o ijimeru no yo, ne?

DG: Right. So were you ordering anything from Japan at that time?

MM: Uh... right before the war? No.

AM: Not too much.

MM: No, not too much.

DG: You mostly got it from people here?

MM: But after the war we went and used to do our own buying.

AM: After war, when we went to Japan, did our own buying.

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