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Interviewer
This oral history is from an interview conducted by the Oral History cluster of the Landscapes of Injustice project.
I have to go back to school, but we stay in Japan. How many years? 18 years I think. I got stuck in Japan. That the time it was war, so one day the navy cadet navy cadet told us
if you join we have lots to eat, because in Japan there was no food here, especially I was with my grandparents. So I joined the Navy air force and I got trained there for ten months to fly 0 and I was in the war. Yeah. Then after the war my parents send us to come back here. That's the way it stands, I'm here. So I went to war but you know get hurt, my legs and everything, it still hurts. But I don't get anything from Japan. I was made in Canada that's why. He came back to Canada, but he went to MIT schoo... you know went to school Red River now, went to school for cook. cooking yeah. So I worked for the government, sanitarium board they used to have me for. You know the sanitarium? That was a big thing, 300 patients was in INET those days now it's no more, nothing back there. They got some creation stuff there now. Then after you worked for a school... I'm not sure I haven't been back there. Then you worked for a school. College. Hmm? Yeah. The school college, cooking for. The way I started cooking was... School teacher college. Yeah He worked. Cooking school yeah, it was on portage in those days. That's for Red River. No not Red River MTI used to be, then changed MTI it used to be because the college. Long time ago yeah. Now Red River. Then after school when he worked for the school teacher college. Now they have a different dam school, now they changed it to...