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TL: Let's see. But this is still before 1941.

HN: Yeah, that was before war started.

TL: Okay. Although Japan was kind of --

HN: They were fighting.

TL: Yeah.

HN: Already.

TL: Yeah. They were fighting, yeah, maybe like in China, for example.

HN: China.

TL: Did you hear much about those activities?

HN: No, we didn't pay that much attention to it. I don't think we even read the newspaper. We didn't know how to read the paper anyway in, it's all in Japanese.

TL: How about your mom, though, 'cause she probably...

HN: She knew, probably.

TL: ...talked to the other adults. Yeah.

HN: Oh, we, we weren't thinking anything about war. We were more worried about our schoolwork because, oh, they had final exams and things. And we had to go to different classes, different teachers for each class.

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