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MU: Then, let's move on. You came home... or was there something else you'd like to say when you were in Japan, something that comes to your mind, that you'd like to say?

GK: Well, all I can say is that, at the beginning, they were completely dependent on the U.S. forces; General MacArthur's section to revamp their system. And subsequent to that, was the implementation of the new system. They wanted to know how (certain) particular (phrases) worked in the United States. (At the) end of 1941, they organized a special Supreme Court... what did they call that?

MU: Study group, or...

GK: (Yes), study group, that came to the United States, led by a Chief Justice and three (...) Supreme Court Justices, (...) one legal scholar, and one or two high court justices. There were eight of them that came to the United States. (I was) appointed (...) as the escort to bring them (...) to the United States, to make contact with various legal (and) judicial organizations. The first place was Texas, and then Washington D.C., New York. And in Washington D.C., they (...) contacted (...) the Justice Department and the Supreme Court, high court. And then we went to the Supreme Court of New York, and then into Albany, and then also the Supreme Court (at) Denver, and Cheyenne. I accompanied them at these places. They assigned us a Nisei interpreter. He was a pretty good interpreter, but not a legal interpreter.

MU: No legal background.

GK: No legal background. So wherever we went I had to do the interpreting. And at Washington, D.C... this was at the... no, Washington, D.C. And one of the Washington Post newspapermen...

MU: Reporter...

GK: Reporter, accompanied us. And they thought that was great, and they gave a special article written about me, in the Washington Post. That was a great honor.

MU: That's wonderful, that's wonderful.

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