Tad Fujita, interviewed by Sandra Taylor on October 28, 1987

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TAD FUJITft +~ Tbo:e:y looked for a Christian church right away, and there was a congregation of the Presbyterian church, so at the age of five I still remember going to my first Sunday School. And ever since then I was never converted a Christian, but it just was given to me through my father. For all these years from 1915 when I was about six years old I started going to this church. And then from then on I became church involved, and I attended Sunday school, and I soon bee arne very active in the YMCA which was a 1 so--San Francisco in the pre-war days there was a place called Japantown, and it's there today again. It has been rejuvenated, reconstructed, but it was already the heart of the Japanese community, and that's where ~ the two or three Protestant church~ a£t(i ~two or three Buddhist churches were, one Catholic church, and then there was the YMCA, so our whole community life was (w l-h,~ (,~ »b ~~~ ot'i..tr- • involved within that community about a block ---?--- I would say about 4 by 4 about sixteen city blocks. ) And so I was raised there in the YMCA and in this church and I soon became a leader. As I grew up into teenager I became in v o 1 v e d in church pro g r am s , leadership, superintendent of Sunday school up to the war time in 1941. And I vividly remember when I was sitting on the stairway to the church when I heard 3