Demoralized, Kimura was seeking something to give him back his self-confidence. He found that in the young Bruce Lee™, who became his mentor, spiritual guide, and best friend. "All the time we were growing up my mother and dad always said: "Look, we're nothing but second-class citizens so don't ever put yourself in the mainstream of life because you are going to get hurt,'" says Kimura. "We argued with them because the educational system told us that we were equal under the constitution. But then (when the war came along) all of a sudden things changed and we were put in the internment camps, even though we were citizens.
