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MU: Now you went to school, I presume, in Greeley.

GK: No. (...) Soon after I was born, my folks moved to Denver and bought a hotel. (...)

MU: Went to school there.

GK: No, I stayed, I was raised there until five. And I started going to Sunday school at the Methodist Church, that was the only Japanese Christian church and I went to Sunday school there. I just started kindergarten at the public school when my father decided to send all the children back to Japan. So I went to Japan in 1906 or '07.

MU: Uh-huh. And how long did you stay there?

GK: I stayed in Japan for ten years.

MU: You went to school there, presumably, and how many years did you go to school there?

GK: Well, grammar school and then junior high, that's eight years. And then I had to go to Kumamoto city to work and while I was out there, I went to night chuugakkou for two years.

MU: Now, that's a lot of schooling. Was that about the maximum schooling...

GK: No. Maximum is chuugakko and high school and college. But I just went to two years of chuugakko, which is equivalent to high school today.

MU: And then after that you came back to Denver or where your folks were, did you?

GK: After I was born in Greeley, my folks moved to Denver, bought a hotel, and while I was in Japan, they sold the hotel, and moved to eastern Colorado and bought a cattle ranch.

MU: Cattle ranch?

GK: Uh-huh. So when I came back in (1928), I came back to the cattle ranch in eastern Colorado, a place called Agate, Colorado.

MU: You said, "1947," but that must have been 1937.

GK: (...) I was born in (...) 1911, and then went to Japan in (1918), and came back in 1928.

MU: 1928, oh, okay, okay.

GK: Get our dates straight here.

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