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(Interviewer)
Ok. Mrs. Kawakami, maybe you can start

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by telling us a little bit about yourself,
where you were born and where you grew up?

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I was born in Kumamoto, Japan
and brought back to Hawaiʻi

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when I was three months old.

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(Interviewer)
3 months old?

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Yes. My father had gone back,
took his entire family

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after the big strike on the plantation
thinking that he’ll never come back.

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But then after living there for a while--

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They went in August of 1921--
no, July, I think--

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and I was born in August and by December,
they decided to come back to Hawaiʻi.

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(Interviewer) Oh, even though it was
that bad after the strike and all,

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they thought it would be better
to move back here, huh?

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Yes, my father felt
that for the children’s sake,

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for educational purpose and all,
he felt that there’s no place like Hawaiʻi

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and the kids really wanted to come back.

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That’s what he said.