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MU: Now we're gonna talk about Pearl Harbor, but even before Pearl Harbor, a lot of the Japanese community leaders were picked up by the FBI and sent away to a special camp. A lot of the leaders that were taken were teachers of Japanese schools and organizers of Japanese school and so and so, I was wondering whether your teacher or the schoolmaster at Kinmon Gakuen was taken away by the FBI? Anything like that happen?

MM: All I know about my, the principal -- Mr. Suzuki -- was, next time I heard from him, he was in Boulder, Colorado where the Navy people were teaching the Japanese language. And when he found out I was at Camp Savage and was recruited as a Japanese typist, he asked for certain things about the typewriter, so I don't know whether he was actually taken in or not. I know people that were with the Japanese Community Service, Nikkeijinkai and some of the ministers or reverends at church, they were rounded up. But I don't recall where Mr. Suzuki went to.

MU: Well, if you heard from him from Boulder, maybe he was a teacher there?

MM: He was teaching there, yes, he was teaching there. A very capable person.

MU: He must've been a pretty good teacher because you do pretty good with Japanese.

MM: He was very good.

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