| 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 17 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_ijau |
| ID |
897725 |
| OCR Text |
Show Ichiro Okumura 7-13-84 s2·: 16 3 IO No, no, no cooking. L Youcouldn't cook at all. I 0 They had what they call a mess hall. L So al lthe cooking was done inthe mess hall. IO Yes. Soyou had to go at a certain time to et, like the army. Same thing. L Morning. Noon, dinner. IO When we- like our barrack, when we went in our block, nothing, no mess hall or nothing, so we had to go to other ones that were already established by theother people that come earlier. Sowe had to go and eat at a different kitchen until they got ours going. For the people from your own block. We actually worked in the kitchen andstuff like that, see. L Were there guards around the place. IO Oh, yeah. Barbed wire. And they had watch towers. Search lights going. Guards around there. They had army people there, MPs. L Soyou knew you were--did you know you were prisoners. IO Well, actually, yeah, because you can't go anyplace. That's actually what we were. Just like a prisoner of war camp actually. L Didyou know that then? IO Oh, yeah. We knew that when we went there. We knew we were going to be in - what did they call it, they call it a detention camp or whatever you want to call it. They didn't actually classify us I guess as prisoners of war. But that actually was what it amounted |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6ns2br3/897725 |
