| 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 143 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_ijau |
| ID |
897965 |
| OCR Text |
Show OHI Grace Oshita 5-30-85 s2:20 GO Hewas looking just fine. And she knew how many close friends he had so. Well, to begin with, in Alexandria, Louisiana, that's where Fort Livingston was, Japanese family ... : lived there. As a family- Well, !guess the husband had already died, but Mrs. Kohara -was operating a photography shop. And Idon'tknow how my mother foundout. Well, I think my father found ~t that she was there and I think he made arrangements for mymother bstay with her. She Mrs.Kohara, I believe was a Nisei. And I think by that time, she and her older son were operating th~photography business. And my mother wrote and said, Mrs. Kohara took her shopping to buy fresh fish for Sachimi , you know. And she - they prepared it and some ofher food and took it - took a Japanese dinner to the men [not just her father]. To the men. For themto enjoy. She was afraid that visitinghours werelmited and even the num-erof days were limited - you know once a week or whatever. But I think she wrote and said the director was very kind and she was able to ~ay with him the wholmy or visit him every day or something like that. LK I can see she was gone for almost a month. GO Yes. LK So were you al-l kind di relieved when she got back and toldyou. GO Yes. I wish I couldhave gone buti guess the first time she went, I was still in school. Idon'tknow about the second time. LK Didyou miss your father alot. GO Ye s. AL t h ough I may not have obhe.2~. nn -o, we were c 1 ose. We did things together. Ahuh. I'm thinking he was a businessman and I'm just a |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6j4099m/897965 |
