| 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 133 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_ijau |
| ID |
897955 |
| OCR Text |
Show OHI Grace Oshita 5-30-85 sl:lO GO NO, we all - every - we all attended community funeral. One interesting thing - ah, that happened when the Japanese were evacuated into camps. Is that all be religions, all the churches got along~th each other. And whenever we had any kind of service or community event, all the churches representatives from all the churc-es got togehter. And some part of that service was conducted by each of the churches. For.instance, be opening prayer might ave been Buddhist. And the sermon might have been Episcopal. The closing prayer might have been Catholic. And so forth. LK They really chippedin and pulled togheter. GO Tha's right. You know, whereas, in San Francisco, for instance, I don'tthink I stepped in a -many c·f the Christian churches. Community Japanese Christian churcehes. We wouldbe busy with the activities of our own church, the Buddhist church that I attended. So, I would not attend entertinament or maybe a bazaar or something that another sect of the Buddhist like the Zen mighthave had. Well, ihave, but not every time. LK NOt as frequenlty or as faithfully. GO That's right. LK D oyou think after the incident of the man being shot or before, that there was a sense of physical ~anger Wereyou physcially afraid? GO Well, from the time, when we first went to Taf6~~ ,we knew that the ~~--- guards were thereinthe towers. And the barbed wire was there. The guards had guns. So, I'm sure we had the fear of -well it's |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6j4099m/897955 |
