Q. (Mr. Raker.) Would you tell us why, you haven’t, or didn’t, and haven’t given more attention and worked harder to become familiar with the Japanese language and history?
A. That is a hard question to ask me just now.
Q. I know it is, but I think you know, my boy; tell us in your own language, in your own way?
A. Well, suppose we go to school five hours a day, the American school. We attend Japanese school for two hours; that is overwork two hours, you see, and we don’t get paid for over time.
Q. I guess you are about pretty near right, didn’t I? You are the kind of a fellow that is going to be thinking a little about money as you grow up, and you are going to make it in Seattle.
A. I haven’t got a business.
Q. (Mr. Raker.) What I was asking that question for, I am going to put it direct. I want you to give me your good frank answer, which I know you will. Is it your determination when you get a little older, and begin to think over the situation, that you want to become familiar with the English language and understand the American ways rather than to devote your time to Japanese ways and language?
A. Well, I want to be an American more than a Japanese. I was born here.
Q. That is one of the reasons you haven’t devoted your time to the Japanese language. How old were you when you started?
A. I started the same year when I went to Grammar School.