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HH: Today is Saturday, August 27th, time now is two forty-three, and we're at Medford Leas and doing an interview. What is your full name?

NH: My full name is Noboru Richard Horikawa.

HH: And what is the name of your wife?

NH: My wife's name is Emi Kito Horikawa.

HH: How many siblings do you have?

NH: I only have one, one sibling.

HH: What are the gender of each one, the one sibling that you have?

NH: He's my brother. [Laughs] What do you mean by that?

HH: How old is he?

NH: Oh, is that what you meant? He's sixty-one.

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

NH: I have two daughters. The first daughter's name is Susan Kimi Lazarus, and she has one daughter, so that's one granddaughter for me. And Ann Michiko Horikawa is the other daughter, and she has three children. And you want their names?

HH: Yeah.

NH: The oldest one is Jane Catherine Manari, and then the second one is Patrick Kito Manari, and one of the most recent ones is Richard Noboru Manari.

HH: Oh, that's your name.

NH: That's right.

HH: Okay. What kind of education did each of your children receive?

NH: Susan Kimi went through the usual public school system in Swarthmore, and then went to Tufts University in Boston, or outside of Boston. Ann also went through the Swarthmore school system and went to Boston University. And Susan Kimi did not continue her education, but found employment in a bank in Boston. And Ann for a master's degree in communications after Boston University, and that was at Temple.

HH: Did she complete that?

NH: She completed that, and then finally she didn't get to use it, but she's a housewife now.

HH: Where were you born and how old are you now?

NH: I just turned sixty-eight. I was born in San Francisco in 1926.

HH: And your parents' names?

NH: Father is Shojiro Horikawa and the mother's name is Kinue Horikawa.

HH: Where were they born?

NH: Father was born in Shirakawa, Fukushima-ken Japan, and mother was in Nara. I guess that's... I'm not sure what town it was, but that's also in Japan.

HH: You said that you were born in San Francisco. What is the San Francisco that you remember, that you grew up in? What kind of city was it?

NH: It was, we were brought up in a community where there were a concentration of Japanese culture there, it was called Japanese town, but we were a little bit on the outer fringes, so we weren't really in the middle of that community. I remember the churches were usually Japanese American, but highly... going toward more Japanese than Caucasian. The ratio is almost ninety-nine percent to one. And that's the kind of environment it was all around San Francisco where I grew up. Even the YMCA was a Japanese YMCA, I mean, there were a bunch of Japanese there. And the Boy Scouts were mostly, consisted of American, Japanese American nationality.

HH: What kind of schools did you attend in San Francisco?

NH: It was the usual public school, the elementary school was Raphael Weill, and then from there went to John Swett junior high school, and then from there to Lowell High School, and that's when the war began and we were evacuated at that time.

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