| Title |
Interviews with Japanese in Utah: Ichiro Okumura |
| Alternative Title |
Ichiro Okumura: interviews on July 13, 1984; and July 20, 1984 |
| Creator |
Okumura, Ichiro, 1922-2003 |
| Contributor |
Kelen, Leslie G., 1949- |
| Publisher |
Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
| Date |
1984-07-13; 1984-07-20 |
| Date Digital |
2014-05-07 |
| Access Rights |
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| Spatial Coverage |
Manzanar, Inyo County, California, United States, http://sws.geonames.org/5370201/ ; Idaho, United States, http://sws.geonames.org/5596512/ |
| Subject |
Okumura, Ichiro, 1922-2003--Interviews; Japanese Americans--Utah--Interviews; Japanese Americans--Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945; Manzanar War Relocation Center; Railroads--Employees |
| Description |
Transcript (typescript, 57 pages) of a two interviews with Ichiro Okumura, a Japanese-American living in Utah in 1984. Mr. Okumura (b. 1922) describes his childhood in California, camp life at Manzanar, harvesting crops in Idaho on a work furlough, a job maintaining railroad track, and discrimination |
| 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/s6ns2br3 |
| Topic |
Japanese Americans; Evacuation and relocation of Japanese Americans (United States : 1942-1945); Manzanar War Relocation Center; Railroads--Employees |
| Relation is Part of |
Mitsugi M. Kasai Memorial Japanese American Archive |
| Setname |
uum_ijau |
| ID |
897767 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6ns2br3 |
| Title |
Page 12 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_ijau |
| ID |
897720 |
| OCR Text |
Show Ichiro Okumura 7-13-84 S~ll And things like that. So we never~anted anything. We just took care of what we had. And then some of the st~ff we had to leave. I can't even remember what it was now, that we left, but we left some crop in the ground. I know. And I -- We didn'thave too much work at home so I went out and help guys harvest their crops that were harvesting at that time. L Beforeyou were evacuated. IO Yes. L Did you talk about the evacuation with others. IO No. We We just accepted it, you know. Never. We just wondered how come, you know, really. When I say I was bitter but I really wasn't - I didn't really think that much about it. You know, really. Just couldn't understand why we had to move when others didn't. Youknow, like the second generation Italians and Germans and what have you that were our friends. They couldn't understand it. They said, how come you have to go and we don't. You know. And they said it was for security reasons. That's what they said. But can you imagine - how close to a defense plant could I get with this face. You know. And an Italian or German, they could ~t right in there. Right? That's why we claimed it was kind of a political type move. L At that time, though, you weren't--were you angry at that time? 10 Well. I-- We were-- Yeah, I guess we were bitter. Because you know you had to try and get rid of everything you have. Of course, we didn't have too much but alot of the guys that did have alot of stuff, they probably sold maybe 25 cents on a dollar type of thing. Just to |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6ns2br3/897720 |
