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Despite the title, the story is written in a third-person voice and does not directly address the young people it is about. Tajima, a high school teacher and frequent contributor to the\n  <i>\n   Rafu Shimpo\n  </i>\n  holiday edition, published the story in the 1967 issue.\n </p>\n <div id=\"authorByline\">\n  <b>\n   Authored by\n   <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/Brian_Niiya\" title=\"Brian Niiya\">\n    Brian Niiya\n   </a>\n   , Densho\n  </b>\n </div>\n <div id=\"citationAuthor\" style=\"display:none;\">\n  Niiya, Brian\n </div>\n <p>\n  Might also like \"\n  <a class=\"encyc rg\" href=\"/wiki/And There Are Stories, There Are Stories (short story)/\" title=\"And There Are Stories, There Are Stories (short story)\">\n   And There Are Stories, There Are Stories\n  </a>\n  \" by Momoko Iko; \"\n  <a class=\"encyc rg\" href=\"/wiki/The Service Flags (short story)/\" title=\"The Service Flags (short story)\">\n   The Service Flags\n  </a>\n  \" by Bill Hosokawa; \"\n  <a class=\"encyc rg\" href=\"/wiki/The Loom (short story)/\" title=\"The Loom (short story)\">\n   The Loom\n  </a>\n  \" by R.A. Sasaki\n </p>\n</div>\n","moreinfo":"<div class=\"section\" id=\"For_More_Information\">\n <h2>\n  <span class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"For_More_Information\">\n   For More Information\n  </span>\n </h2>\n <div class=\"section_content\">\n  <p>\n   Tajima, Ted. \"You Who Are 25.\"\n   <i>\n    Rafu Shimpo\n   </i>\n   , Dec. 19, 1967, 11, 20.\n  </p>\n  <!-- \nNewPP limit report\nCached time: 20250625170738\nCache expiry: 86400\nDynamic content: false\nComplications: []\nCPU time usage: 0.021 seconds\nReal time usage: 0.027 seconds\nPreprocessor visited node count: 211/1000000\nPost‐expand include size: 3918/2097152 bytes\nTemplate argument size: 517/2097152 bytes\nHighest expansion depth: 4/40\nExpensive parser function count: 0/100\nUnstrip recursion depth: 0/20\nUnstrip post‐expand size: 0/5000000 bytes\nExtLoops count: 0\n-->\n  <!--\nTransclusion expansion time report (%,ms,calls,template)\n100.00%   10.992      1 -total\n 28.62%    3.146      1 Template:RGDatabox-Core\n 17.90%    1.968      1 Template:Published\n 17.79%    1.956      1 Template:Databox-Articles\n 17.38%    1.911      1 Template:AuthorByline\n 16.74%    1.840      1 Template:publish-rgonly\n-->\n  <!-- Saved in parser cache with key encycmw:pcache:idhash:3661-0!canonical and timestamp 20250625170738 and revision id 28339\n -->\n </div>\n</div>"}