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Japanese American Film Preservation Project Collection
Title: Eiichi Edward Sakauye Interview II
Narrator: Eiichi Edward Sakauye
Interviewer: Wendy Hanamura
Location: San Jose, California
Date: May 14, 2005
Densho ID: denshovh-seiichi-03-0011

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WH: When you came back from the camp, were there any incidents of people targeting you or being mean to you?

ES: Repeat the question again?

WH: Was there any backlash against you when you came back from...

ES: There was one person, which we became friends before evacuation, but you can tell by his breath he's been at the bar. And he ordered me out to my home, and I said, "I have just as much a right as you are," and that was, a year later, he saw me on the road, and he ordered me to stop. So I had to look twice, who was ordering me to stop, it was this fellow. He said, "I want to apologize." I says, "You're too darn late."

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