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At first I didn't want to talk about...

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I came here by boat

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a cargo boat

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Tere, she says she likes it

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When people die, if they are turned to ash,
they can be scattered at sea

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And I think, when there are cyclones, and all it's awful

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If Tere were there I would not like it.
I told her

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"It's ok Saeki-San, it's very soothing"

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Right now, I am eighty-three

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The other day we went to a funeral home

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to the part where the niches are set

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It was so beautiful there

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Around here, it's not really a high-class place

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There's a lot of potheads... but we're all friends

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We have to be OK with everyone, right?

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People from here really like taking portraits and...

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Photos

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Kodak cameras were quite inexpensive

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and a lot of people could get them

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When I first went to Kodak it was still on

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the corner of London and Berlin... streets

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Around here,

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I also sold film rolls

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and in Cuernavaca I sold film rolls too

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if they ordered

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Transparencies, Kodachrome or Hectachrome

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I would sell them. And later Kodacolor came out

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Not as transparencies, but as negatives.

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I liked it here and...

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I think my life is much better than

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if I had stayed in Japan

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Because

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Photos, photography was starting out here

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And things were going pretty well.

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I sold film rolls and developed them

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and when people brought 35mm

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I always taught them everything

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I think it was a bit different from other stores because

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I taught everything

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And there were almost no...

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There were very few cameras that had

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Diaphragm and velocities. Very few

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Mostly very simple Kodaks

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Sometimes, when people brought cameras like...

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For example Leica, Contax...

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Cameras with velocity and diaphragm controls.

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Distance... how to place the film roll,

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I taught everything well so people would come back

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If the pictures turned out good, they would come back

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That's why it lasted before digital cameras came out

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Because I knew almost everything about handling and all

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All kinds of cameras

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But not digital cameras

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Because I didn't study anything about digital cameras

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That's why I don't know anything

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But film cameras I do know

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I arrived in 1955

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Twenty-three years old

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I have pictures

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I was handsome

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Now I am...

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Older now

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I have stains and everything but...

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There are good intentions toward the Japanese here...

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Sympathetic? Is that how it's said?

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There's good feelings toward the Japanese

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Sympathetic, right?

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My uncle used to send me letters all the time

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Telling me to come to Mexico, that things were good here

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My uncle was very happy living in Mexico

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When I worked at my uncle's store

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He also had a studio

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We would photograph first communions, weddings...

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and everything

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There, I also learned how to...

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how to paint, add color

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because there were no color film rolls yet

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I used photography so I had plenty of albums

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These pictures are very old

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You can show the ones you like, when you were young and handsome

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I broke many, I burned a lot of photos

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My wife worked at Japan Airlines

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I lived 23 years in Japan and 60 years here

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I'm almost 100% from here

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Because I already have a family here

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It's embarrassing, I've been in Mexico for 60 years

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but I can't speak well yet

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It's always very difficult. Other countries languages.

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I loved Mexico

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The weather was so nice

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And also the food, nourishment.

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Nana and buche tacos are more flavorful than maciza

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Steamed basket tacos... pork rinds...

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quesadillas too

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There is plenty of meat here. That's why I moved here.

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Also...

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There is plenty of fruit

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Not like in Japan. It's scarce there, right?

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When I first got here, when I went by the airport, I would feel something

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If I take that plane, I can go back to Japan, I thought

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Not anymore, only at first

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The first time I went back to Japan was after 13 years

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I was there for about 45 days

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I went back that first time because

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I was told my mother was dying

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About a month later my mother passed away

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I'm already forgetting Japanese

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I was born in Osaka but I was there until I was about 4 years old

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If I had been born two months later, I would be dead

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All cities in Japan were mostly ashes

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My house was in the country

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Living in Japan was really tough, there was war all the time

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In the end, I couldn't go to school anymore

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When I was in eighth grade

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I was taken to work at a weapons factory

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My house was very far away

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So I was put in the factory's dormitory

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There was a field in front of the dormitory

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And beyond the field, the sea

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The ocean was beautiful

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On Sunday the 5th, I worked

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On that day, the 6th, it was very hot very early in the morning

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That's why I wanted to swim in the sea

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The sun was very bright

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It was very hot and there were no clouds

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The sun was very beautiful

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It was so hot

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When I was in the middle of the field

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It happened

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The bomb

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At first I didn't know what it was

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I didn't know it was so strong, the bomb

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of Hiroshima

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I didn't know, so I went into the sea

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I played in the sea

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The sea was so beautiful