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JK: So after the camps closed in 1945, where did your family go?

PD: We came back to San Jose, and I guess we all lived at the house, the Dobashi house that was on Sixth Street.

JK: And you said that you remember when you came back from camp -- [coughs] -- excuse me, that there were a lot of weeds. And what other kind of shape was the store in and your house? Was there quite a bit that had to be done to get the business going again?

PD: I don't know how much it took to get it started again, but they did, I don't know, they did open it up at, right after camp, and I guess, I don't recollect how it all happened.

JK: Do you know if they sold the same type of goods right after the war that they did before the war broke out and they were evacuated?

PD: I think they sold more kind of stuff just after the war, and then... but things were hard to get. I remember, I remember they couldn't get soy sauce from Japan, and they, there was a soy sauce being made in Colorado at one time, and it was really hard to get, and it wasn't, it was the closest thing you could get to soy sauce. I think the name was Maruhi Soy Sauce, but it doesn't exist today.

JK: Was it hard to get because there was a limited supply of it, or...

PD: Probably was a limited supply, and there wasn't that much made.

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