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Title: Fumiko M. Noji Interview
Narrator: Fumiko M. Noji
Interviewer: Dee Goto
Location: Bellevue, Washington
Date: April 22, 1998
Densho ID: denshovh-nfumiko-01-0023

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DG: So let's go back now. When, 1920, your husband's parents started the greenhouse and then. So they were running the greenhouse all ready when you got married and you joined the family. And then so your mother-in-law and everybody was working at the greenhouse and you stayed home and --

FN: Yeah, I stayed home.

DG: And cooked.

FN: And did the cooking and the --

DG: And the housework.

FN: Housework, yeah.

DG: So you're children are born when? Betty was born -- ?

FN: 1931. Herb '34 and Arlene was born in '41. See, right at the war, war years. So.

DG: So let's. Did you know that the war was coming at all?

FN: No. Well it was odd because a year or so -- when we, we were building the house. Father came back from Japan, just, just for a short visit. And he said, "You people are crazy. What are you building a new house for?" He said. "Don't you know there's going to be a war in Japan?" That was the last thing that we ever even thought about. And we, at that time, we said, "How can Japan dare?" [Laughs] We were defiant in that way. So my husband really wasn't one, that was all Japanese by any means. He was always pro-American. Did I touch this scratching? Yeah, I'm sorry.

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