Densho Digital Archive
Preserving California's Japantowns Collection
Title: Betty Fujimoto Kashiwagi Interview
Narrator: Betty Fujimoto Kashiwagi
Interviewers: Jill Shiraki (primary); Tom Ikeda (secondary)
Location: Sacramento, California
Date: December 8, 2009
Densho ID: denshovh-kbetty-01-0021

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TI: Earlier you mentioned how your family left Tule Lake to go to Arkansas, and that was right after the registration or the "loyalty questionnaire."

BK: Yeah.

TI: Can you describe that? I mean, what was it like for your family to answer those questions?

BK: They didn't talk about it, so I don't know. All I know is that my mom said we have to move.

TI: Do you recall, because you had older brothers, was it difficult for them to go through and answer those questions?

BK: They never talked about it either.

TI: Did you ever sense a tension, though, about these questions within the camp?

BK: No.

TI: So the first time you really kind of really thought about it was when your mother said, "We're gonna have to move to a new place."

BK: And then when I read about it now.

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