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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-01-0035

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DG: And then you went to...

FN: And then from Emmett we moved to Spokane. See that, when Dr. Nakamura was living in Spokane. And so somewhere, we stayed with them just a bit.

DG: Okay, and they were your friends from Seattle that you played cards with and things.

FN: Yeah, I, I'm quite sure they had moved directly. And so he had a business already. Yeah, he was doing dental, and so... we stayed there for a bit and then we were able to find a home too.

DG: What, one thing amazes me when I hear all these stories the, the network. Everybody seems to know where everybody went and things. Now, did you write to each other, or did you, was there telephone at that time?

FN: I don't know how we knew, knew that Dr. Naka, Nakamura was there. But it must have been some way of knowing because we went directly to their home. I know that we...

DG: So you definitely depended on family and Japanese friends at that time.

FN: Yeah that's right, yeah at that time we just about had to. And then while we were in Emmett as I told you, there was a couple of Nisei families that were quite well respected in that area. So that made a great deal of difference too for us. We were able to communicate with them and so on.

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