| 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 23 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_ijau |
| ID |
897731 |
| OCR Text |
Show Ichiro Okumura 7-13-84 s3:22 L (will look it up) Didyou try to get out of the camp for work? IO Yeah. We went out to thin beets the second year I was there. I went up to Idaho. L You went up to Idaho to thin beets. IO Yes. L How did that process take place of getting out of the camp. IO Oh, they just come and ask - ask who wanted to go out, go out on furlough. They called it a furlough.A work furlough, I guess, more or less. So we went out. Our first year was harvesting beets. And I went to Rupert, Idaho. L How many of you went. IO 2-3-4-5 of us went together. And we ~·bached it. This one- one kid. See they had alabor camp there too, but we never stayed in labor camps. Just five of us went out to the farm. And he had a house and we 11 bached 11 it. This one guy knew how tomake spaghetti. So that's all we ate was spaghetti. L How long were you there. IO Oh, about amonth. A month and a half, I guess ~I wentmck. And then thefullowing spring, !went up to - Now, this wasn't in Rupert. The first year we went was in FIRTH. That's right in between Pocatello and Blackfoot. I think that's where it was. The second year we went-the second time I went out, I went to Rupert. We stayed in - why it was Paul, actually. I guess Paul, PAUL, Idaho. We stayedin a labor camp there. Went out and thinned beets. I sure didn't make any money thinning beets. That was back breaking work. Paid you so much a row. |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6ns2br3/897731 |
