Densho Digital Archive
Manzanar National Historic Site Collection
Title: Takeshi Minato Interview
Narrator: Takeshi Minato
Interviewer: Richard Potashin
Location: Gardena, California
Date: December 4, 2008
Densho ID: denshovh-mtakeshi-01-0029

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RP: Oh, but you had some kids, too, along the way.

TM: Huh?

RP: You had some kids along the way.

TM: Oh, I had four of 'em.

RP: Four of 'em.

TM: Yeah. The first one was what, 1958? Yeah, he's fifty years old. Then...

RP: What's his name?

TM: Jon, J-O-N. Yeah. Then the next one is another boy. His name is Tod, T-O-D. And the third one, my daughter. And then the fourth one is another daughter, yeah. Two and two, yeah.

RP: Do they have any, did they have any curiosity about your camp experience or...

TM: Not too much. Not too much, yeah. But I think one of my daughter wrote about that in her, what is it, in school. About, you know...

RP: A report about it.

TM: Yeah, uh-huh.

RP: Did you talk, openly talk about your experience with them while they were growing up?

TM: Yeah. No, they, they're not too interested. They don't care what you did. [Laughs] You talk to your dad about what you do?

RP: About what he did or what I do?

TM: What you do.

RP: Sometimes. He's not that interested.

TM: [Laughs]

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