| 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 27 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_ijau |
| ID |
897735 |
| OCR Text |
Show Ichiro Okumura 7-13-84 s4:26 IO Oh, you got a little more freedom outside. But. I don't know. Youfuel kind of- kind .of- you know, justrecause you're Japanese. I guess those guys didn't because they'd always lived there all their life. But I felt alittle bit -- what do you call it - insecure. Uncertain. L Vulnerable maybe. IO Yeah. That's the word. Because when we were , the first year we were out there topping beets, I went up to - When a friend of mine come back from Idaho Falls, he was all beat up. Of course, he was one of these guys that used to box and thin§s like that. So I guess he took on some pretty good size white guys and he said he was doing pretty good until ~omebody hit him from behind. Ganged up on him, see. he really got beat up. L That shook some people up . probably. IO Well, he wwas the type of guy thatnevermcked down for anybody, you know. But you got to use your head alittle bit too. L That'sscarey. Because you don't know where it's coming from. I OOh, sure. You haven't got a chance, really. 1there's abunch of guys around and l;m fighting you during this time-- and they're all backing you up, you know. And If I start getting therest of you, or something, then somebodys going to step in. L Anl getyou from behind. IO Yeah, like they did him. See. And pretty soon, you get ganged up on. War does funny things. L In some way, it was good to get out but it wasn't too safe to stay out. |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6ns2br3/897735 |
