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BF: This is a Densho interview of Ms. Chiye Tomihiro. The interviewer is Becky Fukuda. It is September 11, 1997, and we are on the UCLA campus for the Redress Conference. Okay. Chiye, let me ask you some quick background questions, to set sort of the context. What currently do you do for a living?

CT: I'm retired.

BF: And what were you, what did you retire from?

CT: I was an accountant.

BF: And are you married, single, do you have a family?

CT: Single.

BF: Okay, and where do you currently live?

CT: In Chicago.

BF: Chicago. And were you born in the Midwest?

CT: No, I was born in Portland, Oregon.

BF: Oh. And so how did you end up getting to Chicago?

CT: Well, like the rest of the people, Japanese Americans on the coast, I was removed and put in an assembly center first and then on to Minidoka, Idaho. And then I went to Denver -- first year of college in Denver -- and then transferred to the University of Wisconsin. And my family, in the meantime, left camp and moved to Chicago and after school I moved to Chicago and joined 'em.

BF: I see, I see. Kind of a long, circuitous route.

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