| Title |
Interviews with Japanese in Utah: Grace Oshita |
| Alternative Title |
Grace Oshita: interviews on February 20, 21 and 26, 1985, and May 22 and 30, 1985 |
| Creator |
Oshita, Grace Fujimoto, 1925- |
| Contributor |
Kelen, Leslie G., 1949- |
| Publisher |
Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
| Date |
1985-02-20; 1985-02-21; 1985-02-26; 1985-05-22; 1985-05-30 |
| Date Digital |
2014-05-07 |
| Access Rights |
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| Spatial Coverage |
San Francisco, San Francisco County, California, United States, http://sws.geonames.org/5391959/ ; Topaz Camp, Millard County, Utah, United States, http://sws.geonames.org/5548582/ |
| Subject |
Oshita, Grace Fujimoto, 1925- --Interviews; Japanese Americans--Utah--Interviews; Japanese Americans--Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945; Central Utah Relocation Center |
| Description |
Transcript (typescript, 174 pages) of a series of interviews with Grace Oshita, a Japanese-American living in Utah in 1985. Mrs. Oshita (b. 1925) speaks of her early life in San Francisco, her father's business ventures, and the Japanese relocations of World War II. Her family was interned at the Topaz, Utah, relocation center |
| 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/s6j4099m |
| Topic |
Japanese Americans; Evacuation and relocation of Japanese Americans (United States : 1942-1945); Central Utah Relocation Center |
| Is Part of |
Aileen H. Clyde 20th Century Women's Legacy Archive |
| Relation is Part of |
Mitsugi M. Kasai Memorial Japanese American Archive |
| Setname |
uum_ijau |
| ID |
897992 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6j4099m |
| Title |
Page 31 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_ijau |
| ID |
897853 |
| OCR Text |
Show Grace Oshita 2-20-85 s6:30 GO And so - I became bilingual because I learned Japanese first, I guess, and I spoke a lot of Japanese. And another thing, I have always felt comfortable among older people. L That maybe where it .comes from too. GO That's right. L It's interesting. Youre a complicated person in a lot of ways. Because you know you grew up by yourself and yet at school, you seemed to have the ability to be with others, to be accepted by others, 1t appears. I mean, you don't seem as -- GO I think L shy GO I did miss anill felt left out, un comfortable was whenever I was with other Nisei kids who were more Americanized and who would go to dances, go to ball games after -- enjoying the activities of the high school. For instance, students~1 ~Rd I probably missed that because I had the language school and the music lesson to go to. L And you felt your orientation was different. GO That's right and so I was never a popular person among that group. In other words, I wasn'tinvited to attend a school dance, for instance. You know, in that sense, well, the Japanese students club was made up of naturally all high school students of California, Northern California and there would be conferences. But we would just go as a group of girls and well, I was never active in going to dances and socials of the younger people. That was limited too. probably to church group. L Did you feel left out. GO Yes, I did. Especially in camp. When I got to camp, I wished that I were |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6j4099m/897853 |
