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DG: Your parents got together and they were married, you said one of the first ones...

TS: My father was about twelve when he came and my dad... my mother was about fifteen when she entered the United States. My maternal grandparents (had) left her with my maternal grandmother's aunt and she was very, very lonesome (until) she was about fifteen when my grand father went to Japan to bring her to the United States.

DG: This is your parents that were married...

TS: My parents were married in Fife at the Fife Presbyterian Church as the first Japanese couple to be married in 1915 and I was born 1916.

DG: Your mother was only about seventeen years old when she got married.

TS: She was sixteen years old.

DG: Wow! Were there other brothers and sisters of your parents that came also? So did they bring families?

TS: My father's oldest brother came and settled in Fife, too and he had a family and raised them in Fife.

DG: What about on the maternal side then?

TS: On the maternal side, my mother was the only daughter, so on the maternal side there was just us.

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DG: Let's talk about your parents now. They got married in 1915.

TS: I was born one year later exactly to the day, and after my birth, my sister Taeko, (two years later). Her married name is Akamatsu.

DG: How many all together were there?

TS: There were seven and one died at about age three.

DG: So you all lived on the farm there and your grandparents were around you and you had some uncles around you so there was quite a group.

TS: That's correct.

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