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Title: George Fugami Interview
Narrator: George Fugami
Interviewer: Dee Goto
Location: Seattle, Washington
Date: June 15, 1998
Densho ID: denshovh-fgeorge-01-0014

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DG: Before we go on, what about like math and some of those science and things like that, was it different than in America?

GF: Well, math in the United States was much more improved. I mean, much better than the one in Japan because when I went back there -- that is one subject I was terrific because I was ahead of the other kids.

DG: No kidding?

GF: Yeah, they weren't that far ahead.

DG: I thought it was the opposite.

GF: No, no. Math was number one in Japan, but when I came from United States to Japan, when I went to school, I was ahead. See, I was way ahead in math.

DG: What about science?

GF: Gee, I don't know about science too much. I didn't, I don't remember that part of it. But when you get into school and you're into high school then you learn a lot of things like science. I think we take a subject of everything, not you want to specialize in this and this, they don't do that. You take the whole thing what you want to do and in the fifth or fourth grade -- see, there's five years of high school in Japan, the fourth year you divide yourself up. You want to go to a higher school, you go to one class. And you want to go into to be a merchant or you wanna be in agriculture, you go into another class. That's how it is, but up to then you take the same subjects and that part there, I think, Japan was very good.

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