| 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 144 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_ijau |
| ID |
897966 |
| OCR Text |
Show OHI Grace Oshita 5-30-85 s2:21 student. And my grandmother did more things with me than he did. But I think that'smore true of a Japanese businessman's family anyway. Yes, !missed him. Yes. LK Soundslike a greater loss foryou may have been your grandmotehr - if she had beentaken away. GO I think it wouldhave been, LK Beucase she was sort of the anchor for you. GO Yes. Ahuh. And - if I use the word fear, it wouldnot be correct. But I;m sure ~u would understand what I mean. I never feared my mother marrying my father and coming into our family becuase . I had my grandmother. LK I understand. !understand. Ahuh. So now in 1943, quite a lot of things take placelYour Dad gets transferred one more time. he goes to Santa Fe. Right? GO Ahh. Santa Fe again, dear me. LK Soit says here. Now, in October of 43, your Dad visits Topaz. GO Yes, yes he does. See,after the two visits, my mother foundout that she could still -s heoouldn't file an income tax anyway. There was no way - she wasn't familiar enough with business accounting. Let's say, accounting. Thecomplete accounting of the business. And so theonly way that this couldbe accmplished was tohave him visit and work on fromfue beginning to the end, for him to do it completely rather than mymother to try to piece things together. And so, this - ah, this was allowed becuse of that. Well, only |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6j4099m/897966 |
