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JK: Your father's business, we talked about that, and we talked about that you did have some responsibility delivering the paper. Is there, did your father own this himself?

AO: Yes. I think that the paper was started by a relative of my mother's, a Mr. Abe, he would have been my mother's uncle. He came to Portland long before my father and mother came here, and started the Japanese paper here. And then he wanted to move down to San Francisco to either start or handle the paper in the Bay Area, so I think at that time he invited my dad to take over because of his journalism background, to take over the newspaper here in Portland.

JK: So then your dad bought the business from him?

AO: I don't know if he bought it or given it, I don't know anything about the finances of it.

JK: And it sounds like your dad's paper was very successful.

AO: Yes.

JK: Because it distributed not only to Portland, but where else was it being distributed?

AO: It was mailed out to all the various subscribers in the Japanese communities and towns like Hood River and the Dalles, and other surrounding communities. So it was pretty well widespread throughout Oregon.

JK: And your dad covered local news, national news, and international news?

AO: Yes, the whole thing, right.

JK: Where was he getting his international news from?

AO: I don't know enough about the business to say where he got it, I don't know.

JK: Okay, but he was keeping everyone updated --

AO: Yes.

JK: -- who subscribed.

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