TEXT: "Kimiko Kitagaki Wong and Paul Kiyoshi Kitagaki return in 2005 to the Oakland building where the East Bay evacuees were sent to camps. Their father, Suyematsu, arrived in America at age 27 in 1904. He started the Sunset Laundry in San Francisco but moved to Oakland after the 1906 earthquake. Then he started the Arthur Dyeing and Cleaning Works in Oakland's Piedmont neighborhood, and the family lived in the back of the building. After returning from camp, Suyematsu was unable to restart his business and worked as a domestic cleaning homes in Piedmont. Kimiko and Kiyoshi were at the Paramount Theater watching a movie when Pearl Harbor was attacked, and they didn't learn about it until they left the theater. When the family was forced to leave, they stored items at the Oakland Buddhist church and with Dorothy Hightower's family. Kiyoshi Kitagaki left the Topaz incarceration camp to finished high school in Des Moines, Iowa, in 1945, then enlisted in the U.S. Army Air Force in 1946. After his military service, he enrolled at San Francisco State College and became a high school teacher in San Francisco. Sept. 18, 2005. Oakland, Calif. ""Gambatte! Legacy of an Enduring Spirit"" Project Copyright@2012 Paul Kitagaki Jr."