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Show Nobuzo Endo 2-7-84 s1:4 we - In the United States, we walk into the house with shoes on. In Japan, you have to take everything off. And on occasion you wear zori.vor slipper and go into house· That's the way most - that's the way every place you go in Japan. Nobody will walk in with a shoe on. Ogitan is a Japanese - not a shoe- but a Japanese wooden-theycall them wooden shoes back then. Something like that. So, their ' .t-·~ c u 1 t u r e i s qui t e a b i t d i f fer en t • -l-b ""Jtw.f w-t o v.._ • 8 u t we ) learned from the very beginning. I remember and think back over those things so I it's quite ~tersting. At my age now. SF What did you find interesting. What do you find interesting. NE Well, the country is pretty old. And they kept up their culture, generation after generation. And the United States is only - what - a little more than 100 years old or something like that with alot o( people from different countries came to theUnited States, they brought their what you might say culture from thecld country, or heritage. Or whatever you call it. And, that's the way we live in this country. Of course, now, it's quite a bit different. But when I came back to the United States 1924, ah, it was more so than it is right now. 0 SF What kind of school did you go to in Japan. NE Well, just a grammar school. SF Do you remember what you studied? NE Well, now, in Japan, you have no choice but they will give you the subject you have~ take as you advanced, first grade, |
