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HH: What is your full name?

AO: My full name is Alan Hisayoshi Okamoto.

HH: Okay. And what is the name of your wife?

AO: My wife's name is Yoneko Watanabe Okamoto.

HH: And how many siblings do you have?

AO: My siblings? I have four. No, wait a minute, three siblings. That's my brothers. [Laughs]

HH: And what are the genders and ages of each of them?

AO: The ages and gender of each I'm not very sure of. My younger, next youngest brother is William Kiyoshi Okamoto, who is five years younger than I am, who would now be sixty-nine. The next one is Raymond F. Okamoto, and he is fourteen years younger than me, so that would place him about sixty. And the youngest is Robert Okamoto, and he is fifteen years younger, so that would make him fifty-nine, I guess.

HH: Right. All boys.

AO: All boys.

HH: And how many children do you have?

AO: I have four children, two girls and one boy.

HH: And what kind of education did they receive?

AO: Every one of them received a college education, getting either a BA or BS degree. Two of them went through medical school and had their MDs.

HH: So I was going to ask you what their occupations are. So two of them are medical...

AO: One is a surgeon, one is a psychiatrist, the youngest is a girl who is a schoolteacher in a private school in California, and the other one is a boy who has been with the Campus Crusade for Christ for ten years, just received his Master of Divinity this year.

HH: So does mean that he will one day be a minister, or he is a minister now?

AO: That means that he actually is, got his degree so that he could go to Japan as a missionary. And going to a foreign country, it is better to have a ministerial degree than to have no degree at all.

HH: Do you have any grandchildren?

AO: I have three grandchildren by the one who is a ministerial student, two girls and one boy. And the MD psychiatrist has a adopted blue-eyed blonde with the name Okamoto. [Laughs]

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