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RP: Do you remember any visits to any of the bathhouses in Japantown?

JN: No.

RP: That wasn't a ritual of your family.

JN: No, it never was. Our social life revolved around the church, St. Peter's church. My mother became a very ardent churchgoer, and indeed, our next-door neighbor was Gennosuke Shoji, the Shoji family. Father Shoji was the founder, was the original priest of St. Peter's. And I hope one of these days, the church, the significance of the church in the lives of Isseis and Niseis in the Japanese American community, that's gotta be a story that's gotta be told, I think, because they played a dominant role, at least in Seattle, in my opinion. There were many, many Christian churches.

RP: Were you involved in some of the Japanese martial arts like judo or kendo?

JN: No, I wasn't, but I was, St. Peter's had a Boy Scout troop, and my older brother was a bugler, and they won awards in the parades, the municipal parades. The Troop 51 Drum and Bugle Corps, and it was a proud moment to see them marching down the streets of Seattle on, I think it was Fourth of July. But I was a good scout, I just became -- you know, I was really not quite of age, but I remember going to scout meetings and going to Mercer Island for overnight trips, and going on, being taken on snipe hunts. I don't know if kids today, if scouts today do things like that, but, yeah, they were happy memories. Yeah, to be a member of the scouts.

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