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Title: Rick Sato Interview
Narrator: Rick Sato
Interviewer: Alice Ito
Location: Seattle, Washington
Date: March 2, 1998
Densho ID: denshovh-srick-01-0001

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AI: Okay, well, I think like I said before, I just wanted to get started kind of at the beginning with your parents and ask you what your parents' names were and where they came from?

RS: Okay, you want to know that now?

AI: Sure.

RS: Ah, my dad and mom came from Fukushima, Japan and they've been here in the United States for about sixty-five years before they passed away.

AI: And what was your dad's name?

RS Kaneshiro, that's a old time Japanese name, I guess. And my mom's name was Tatsu, which I guess is still around. But Kaneshiro, you never hear of that too much any more.

AI: And, you mentioned that they had moved into the Yakima valley.

RS: Yeah, they came in from Canada, Vancouver B.C. I think they first came from Japan. And they came through the border to Yakima after that.

AI: And when was it that your oldest brother was born?

RS: He was born, well he was born here in this country, so he is a citizen. But I don't know the exact date, now, that he was born. He's seven years older than I am; and I'm seventy, so it makes him seventy-seven.

AI: So that would have been about 1920 or so, 1920 or '21 or so.

RS: Yeah, I gotta, I gotta figure that out, but that's about right. [Laughs]

AI: 1920 or '21...

RS: Yeah because mine's 1927, so 1920 sounds right.

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