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RP: So you were talking about the fact that you didn't grow up with Japanese in the home, and English was primarily the... did you attend a Japanese language school later on?

SK: Yeah. You know, I'm trying to remember exactly how long I lasted in that Japanese school. I don't think I lasted very long. They did have one right there on the corner of Hedge and Fruitridge, at that place I call Taishoku. And I remember going to it, but I don't remember how long I went. I really don't think I attended it very long. So the Japanese language was never stressed to us. They never made a thing where they wanted us to learn Japanese, so we never did learn.

RP: That was very contrary to a number of other families, who the kids remember picking up Japanese at home and going to school, and that's one of the first exposures they had to English.

SK: Yeah, well, then we must be in the minority because I don't...

RP: Well, your parents were Nisei.

SK: Right, yeah. Like I said, they never expressed that. And to this day, if I could speak a hundred words of Japanese, that'd be pretty good. [Laughs]

RP: Well, we won't take you up on that.

SK: Okay, no.

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