| Title |
Interviews with Japanese in Utah: Saige Aramaki |
| Alternative Title |
Saige Aramaki |
| Creator |
Aramaki, Saige, 1918- |
| Contributor |
Kelen, Leslie G., 1949- |
| Publisher |
Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
| Date |
1984-06-28 |
| Date Digital |
2014-03-25 |
| Access Rights |
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| Spatial Coverage |
Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, United States, http://sws.geonames.org/5780993/ ; Price, Carbon County, Utah, United States, http://sws.geonames.org/5545269/ ; South Korea, http://sws.geonames.org/1835841/ ; Japan, http://sws.geonames.org/1861060/ |
| Subject |
Aramaki, Saige, 1918- Interviews; Japanese Americans--Utah--Interviews; Japanese Americans--Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945; United States--Armed Forces--Japanese Americans; Japanese American soldiers; Japanese American farmers; Utah--Ethnic relations |
| Description |
Transcript (typescript, 44 pages) of an interview on June 28, 1984, by Leslie Kelen of Saige Aramaki, a Japanese American born at Price, Utah. Mr. Aramaki (b. 1918) recounts his genealogy, and recalls his childhood in Carbon County, Utah. He was drafted into the army in the Spring of 1941. After Pearl Harbor he was demoted and transferred out of his unit, which was scheduled to be shipped to Europe. He was sent to Japanese language school at Camp Savage in Minnesota. He was sent to Japan after the war. In his twenty-two years in the army Mr. Aramki served in Japan, Korea, and various bases within the continental United States. Other topics covered include farming, racial discrimination, the Japanese American Citizen's League, automation in manufacturing, and the possibility of redress for Japanese internment. |
| Type |
Text |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Language |
eng |
| Rights |
 |
| 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/s6m05ng4 |
| Topic |
Japanese Americans; Evacuation and relocation of Japanese Americans (United States : 1942-1945); Japanese American soldiers; Japanese American farmers |
| Relation is Part of |
Mitsugi M. Kasai Memorial Japanese American Archive |
| Setname |
uum_ijau |
| ID |
897665 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6m05ng4 |
| Title |
Page 31 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_ijau |
| ID |
897650 |
| OCR Text |
Show OHI Saige Aramaki s-28-84 s2:30 LK Didyouget involvedin the JACL. SA Oh, yeah. LK When. SA Back in 1937, 18, I guess. We had a JACL Chapter here n Salt Lake. I joind for 50 cents. [chuckles] a year. Or something. And then! come back in 62 and then in 1963, I belonged to the Mt. Olympus Chapter of the JACL and I've handled -I've held all the positionsirrthat Chapter from Treasurer and! was ~esident for 2 years of the JACL. LK When you first joined the JACL in 37, 38, you were a young guy, what didyou understand was the purpose of the JACL. At that time, they dind't have anything to- you know, no known · ~ purpose, n o nothing, they were just starting out, I guess. I never got involvedin anything at that t-me. Just paid thedues and that was it. LK Didyou meet. SA I don't even reacall meeting. It was - !guess !was only in for 2 or 3 years. That's about all. And then I got involved, when I came back, in '63. See. LK What did youget nvolvedin then. SA JACL for employment and the rights of what we should have, dis-crimniation and all that as i-volved then. LK THose issues were important then. SA Oh yes. LK Whatabout employment. Did you go out finding jobs for Japanese |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6m05ng4/897650 |
