(Japanese) I was only in 9th grade when I decided I wanted to come to Brazil. So back in my middle school—it’s turned into a high school now—but at the middle school, a senpai of mine that lived near my house had just graduated and moved to Brazil. That had a real strong influence on me, and I really started thinking that I wanted to go to Brazil. So then, I graduated, and I was at home for a bit. I was at my home in Nagano for just about half a year, then enrolled at Rikko-kai—an international school in Tokyo called Rikko-kai, which was a school that helped prepare me to go abroad and such. I was there [at the school] for another half-year, and boarded a ship… it was the same year as when I registered for Selective Service… so, 20 years old? I was 20 when I boarded the ship and came over to Brazil. Back then, the route to get to Brazil [from Japan] was around India, around Africa, and finally to Brazil, and it took 46 days to arrive. I came to Santos. Then I went to Sao Paulo, and… where should I start… well anyway I’m all alone—single, of course, with no family, and maybe there were other Japanese in Brazil that I could consider as being my ‘relatives,’ but there wasn’t much reason to search for them back then. So, through my senpai’s suggestion, I decided to stay at a dormitory. The location of this dormitory is actually where the Cultural Center stands today. There was an old building back then… We tore it down, and the Cultural Center was built.