Title |
Interviews with Japanese in Utah: Kiyotoshi Iwamoto |
Alternative Title |
Kiyotoshi Iwamoto: interviews on May 24, 1984, and June 4, 1984 |
Creator |
Iwamoto, Kiyotoshi, 1914-2002 |
Contributor |
Kelen, Leslie G., 1949- |
Publisher |
Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
Date |
1984-05-24; 1984-06-04 |
Date Digital |
2014-05-07 |
Access Rights |
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Spatial Coverage |
Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, United States, http://sws.geonames.org/5780993/ ; Oakland, Alameda County, California, United States, http://sws.geonames.org/5378538/ ; Hawaii, United States, http://sws.geonames.org/5855797/ |
Subject |
Iwamoto, Kiyotoshi, 1914-2002--Interviews; Japanese Americans--Utah--Interviews;California--Ethnic relations; Utah--Ethnic relations; United States--Emigration and immigration; Hawaii--Emigration and immigration |
Description |
Transcript (typescript, 89 pages) of two interviews with Kiyotoshi Iwamoto, a Japanese-American living in Utah in 1984. Iwamoto, the son of a Buddhist minister, was born in Hawaii. He talks about Asian immigration to Hawaii, going to school in Japan, the political situation in Israel, the rise of militarism in Japan in the 1930s, and working as a migrant farm laborer and "houseboy" in pre-World War II California. He also describes cultural conflict between the Issei (Japanese-born), the Nisei (American-born), and the Kibei (American-born, educated in Japan). Other topics covered include discrimination in California and in Utah , Japanese businesses in Salt Lake City, and Japanese towns |
Type |
Text |
Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
Format |
application/pdf |
Language |
eng |
Rights |
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Relation |
http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv45901 |
Scanning Technician |
Matt Wilkinson |
Conversion Specifications |
Original scanned with Kirtas 2400 and saved as 400 ppi uncompressed TIFF. PDF generated by Adobe Acrobat Pro 9 for CONTENTdm display |
ARK |
ark:/87278/s6vh75m7 |
Topic |
Japanese Americans; Emigration and immigration |
Relation is Part of |
Mitsugi M. Kasai Memorial Japanese American Archive |
Setname |
uum_ijau |
ID |
900483 |
Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6vh75m7 |