Interviews with Japanese in Utah: Grace Oshita

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Grace Oshita 2-28-85 s2:12 who came and helped my grandmother do those things. L This is all preparing for the GO The evacuation. Yes.First of all, I mean when you think back, it was so funny because all of a sudden, we tried to get rid of things Japanese. You know, for instance, any magazines we had. We stuffed it in the garbage. Any Japanese records we had, we broke it and threw them away. Especially if the titles werepatriotic or something.And it was just a song to us. You know, it might ave been the words might have been about soldiers going to war, or whatever, but it was still jsut a song taus, jut music. But .we were so afraid that everything that we had that sounded· pro Japanese wouldbe taken --would be taken very seriously by the FBI if they should come and search the house.Becuse that's what they were doing. Here a~eaftd newspaper reports, and on the radio that thse kinds of searches and things were going on, all the way up and down the coast. To Japanese families .. L What people were you in most communication with at that time. Within your own family. Or who did you talk to most about checking out things. GO Let's see. Well, when my father was home, we took care of things ourselves. There is no problem there. As soon as my father was gone, hmm. I guess my mother must have consulted the salesmen, the old time worker, Mr. Takiza the fellow that I told you about that's in the other book. Mr. Takiza. People like that. Or let's see,