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Title: Hiroshi Kashiwagi Interview
Narrator: Hiroshi Kashiwagi
Interviewer: Alice Ito
Location: Klamath Falls, Oregon
Date: July 3, 2004
Densho ID: denshovh-khiroshi-02-0022

AI: Well, so tell me what happened with the renunciation, the process there. First you, first you requested to renounce?

HK: Yes. And then they sent us a form, and we filled that out, and I don't know if we had a hearing at that point. Probably we did. Yes, and then the approval came. But the whole process was very quick, yeah. I mean, there was no time to, to think it over, or to change your mind. Although we weren't about to change our minds.

[Interruption]

AI: So then after you had gone through this process, and you had renounced your citizenship, then what was your feeling after that?

HK: Well, it was... I had a funny feeling that I had done something, something wrong, yeah. Something drastic, I think. But it was done. And it was, we were glad it was over, because we, we expected a lot of difficulty, obstacles to overcome in, in doing this. And yet, it was so easy, it just went over, and was fine. They, they were accepting. Yeah. And it wasn't too long after it happened that I felt I had, that no, I didn't want to do that. I really didn't want to do it, actually. I was just going along, and I don't like to talk about my brother this way, but I think he forced the issue, and I gave into that. I regret that most of all. I should have opposed him. He, he's a kind of black-and-white person, has to be one way or the other, and so we had our conflicts through the years because of that. And he had his way.

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