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SY: With having Pearl, a Caucasian, blond, blue-eyed woman in your, as a strong person in your life, and being in an area growing up where there are very few people of color, what ways did you have, participate in the Japanese community, or did you participate in any Japanese traditions?

MN: Well, there were a few Japanese families besides us in the area. They were truck farmers, I guess. And my brother used to always go to Japanese town to buy Japanese food, rice and the miso and the tofu and things like that, which he enjoyed and my mother enjoyed. But I, myself, don't ever recall going to Japanese town.

SY: Do you remember ever eating Japanese foods?

MN: Yeah, we ate Japanese food. But we ate mostly Yankee food. And Japanese food -- we had, actually, we had both, but emphasis was on the American food. My mother and brother always enjoyed the Japanese food.

SY: This is Hiromu and your mom?

MN: Yes.

SY: I see.

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