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HH: What is your full name?

CK: My full name is Chiyo Koiwai.

HH: And how many siblings do you have?

CK: I have five.

HH: What are the gender and ages of each?

CK: My sister in Hawaii, who is seventy-eight, my brother Tom Tamaki in Norristown, seventy-six, and then myself, seventy-five. Yoshi would be '73, she lives in Ambler, Susie is seventy-one, living in California near San Francisco, Sunnyvale. And my youngest brother, Ted, will be sixty-nine, living in Renton, Washington.

HH: How many children do you have and what are their names and ages?

CK: I have four children, April, who turned forty-seven, Mark, forty-five, Peter, forty-three, and my youngest, Jay, who's forty and a half right now.

HH: And what kind of an education did they receive or what are they doing these days?

CK: They are all college graduates. My oldest is in... I lost my paper... in Washington, D.C. I lost the paper, I had his title, doing work within the city. It's United Commissions, and that's my first son. But my oldest daughter, April, is in Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She now works for United Jewish Commission working with Russian Jewish immigrants. My third son Peter is in California, he's in sales for a Japanese company, and the youngest, Jay, is in Los Angeles working in a different area in the films and TV productions.

HH: Do you have any grandchildren at this point?

CK: I have four grandchildren, two from my daughter. He's second year in college, he's twenty years old, and other one, Brian, is a senior in high school. And then two by my son Peter, has a little girl, a six year old, will be starting grade school this fall, named Abby, and then a four year old was born in October, and they both live in California.

HH: Where were your parents born?

CK: My parents were born in Hiroshima, father in Takata-gun and mother in Yoshida, in Hiroshima area.

HH: Where in California, I'm assuming that you lived in California at that time.

CK: Only time I lived in California was when we were sent by the service back in the '50s. But before that, I hadn't.

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