| 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 147 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_ijau |
| ID |
897969 |
| OCR Text |
Show OHI Grace Oshita 5-30-85 s2:24 LK Now - GO But from hat day on, fromthe day he was released,he personally made plans to reestablish thebusiness in Salt Lake City. LK Before we talk about that -- let me get back to a moment to the yes yes questionthing.Youanswered that question obviously before your father came. GO Thta's right. LK Thewhole thing. Ah, what impact did that whole question thing have on people you knew in the area. People you had become friends with. GO You know, it divided the whole camp. Ah, into the yes-yes group and the no-no group. Some - people were campaig ning to - or trying to influence people to answer no-no. We should get together on this and protest. Y~u know,there were some protesters who wanted all of us to stand together on the issue. You know. Becuase it was quite an issue. I think many probelms did stem from the questionnaire in allthe camps. And there were the problem became so intense, intensified that the no-no group had to be segregated. That's when they decided to use the T~M~ LAke camp of the camp of the segregated from theothes. The no-no group were all = almost interned, sent to To&iet Lake, separated. fromfue others. And, so, some of theresidents who answered affirmative, youknow, - even from Tooel~ LAke came to - moved to Topaz. I remmber that. Many Sacramento people who lived h Tooclu Lake, came. LK Didyou have people that you knew, you wereclose to, that said no-no. GO Yes, Idi d . I had a girl friend. Ah, that attended grade school with. |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6j4099m/897969 |
