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DG: So, how did they come about restarting the school?

TS: Well, I think I was... I frankly don't realize, know, what the organizational details were, but the Language School prewar was to have classes for an hour or hour and a half after public school every day. And when it was restarted in 1956, the Language School was started for classes from 10 or 10:15 to 12:00 on Saturdays only, at the Language School with the student body of something like 180 to 200 students and it, their enrollment has not changed as far as I'm aware of, over the...

DG: Did the Japanese Community Service have anything to do helping with obtaining naturalization and that kind of thing? What were their activities those first years? Well, let's, let's establish the fact that Japanese Community Service is the parent organization and then the Japanese Language School is the subsidiary organization, right? The Japanese Language School was one of their activities, so then maybe previous to that was the housing. Was there, were there other things?

TS: Well.

DG: Do you remember those years, Kiyo?

KS: I was not active in the, in the community service at all.

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