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RP: After, after Pearl Harbor, there was restrictions on travel placed on Japanese Americans. I think you could travel five miles...

RK: There probably was. But, it didn't mean too much to us.

RP: How about your dad?

RK: We, we didn't travel too much anyway.

RP: Was your, how about your father's gardening business?

RK: Well, it was within, within the two-mile radius.

RP: That's it?

RK: That's where he worked, just around here.

RP: Oh, okay.

RK: So, there was, there was no problem there.

RP: How about having to turn in shortwave radios or cameras or things of that nature? It was referred to as contraband, you had to turn it in to the police station or...

RK: Yeah. Well, I guess we turned in what we were supposed to, but we kept a lot of, most of the stuff anyway. We had our radios, we had our cameras. [Laughs] So, you know, it wasn't that much, it wasn't that much restrictions. Yeah.

RP: How about the, I hear from a number of people that they either burned items that had significance to Japan, records or pictures of the emperor, things of that nature.

RK: I don't recall anything like that. But they did, they did, people who had an affiliation with the Japanese school and judo, those people who, they were interned first, first.

RP: Picked up.

RK: But, other than that, our family wasn't involved at all. Yeah.

RP: So you were fortunate to have neighbors who...

RK: Oh, our neighbors were great.

RP: Yeah?

RK: Yeah, our neighbors were great. Yeah. No problem.

RK: And like I said, there was a lot of other Japanese families around, too. And we all went to camp.

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