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DG: So as your kids went to the language school, was there like a parent board for the language school?

GH: No.

DG: Who hired the teacher?

GH: Oh, the parents hired, because we had a home over there for teachers, resident home. So luckily we got a hold of... well, before the war, luckily, we got these Osakis, Mr. and Mrs. Osaki. But after the war, like she was saying, the Sakai, one of the family's girl, and then there was another lady teaching. Your cousin, Chizuko-san was teaching.

Off camera: Chizuko-san was in the Osaki-sensei no toki. I had her.

GH: Oh, after the war was just Mitsuko.

DG: And did your kids go... so they went to the Gakuen?

GH: That's right.

DG: Until when?

Off camera: Maybe a couple years.

GH: Yeah. Until she, she said she want to retire.

DG: So in the '50s?

GH: Yeah.

Off camera: Well, let's see, how old was Steve when he went?

GH: Ten, I guess.

Off camera: I guess it would be around maybe '55 or '6.

GH: Steve went there for a while, so he knows some Japanese.

DG: So by the '60s there weren't classes anymore? So it was only used by the Doshi Kai.

GH: Yeah. Well, someone that wants to come to school, they were coming.

Off camera: No, there weren't no teachers.

GH: Yeah, Mitsuko was teaching.

Off camera: Yeah, but Mitsuko got married and then she didn't teach after that.

GH: No, but before she got married she'd teach Steve and... who was the other? Sakais? Nishis, few other family kids were coming.

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