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84-year-old American from Colorado, Takeshi Murata finally got his high school diploma yesterday.
He left University High School in Greeley in 1944 when he was drafted to fight in World War II, FoxNews reports. The son of Japanese immigrants, Murata was trained as an interpreter in case of an invasion.
Murata says he barely spoke Japanese but was sent to Tokyo after the war ended. He married in Japan and returned to northeast Colorado in 1947, where …
