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Title	Interviews with Japanese in Utah: Jun Kuramada
Alternative Title	Jun Kuramada: interviews on August 24, 1984, and October 24, 1984
Creator	Kuramada, Jun, 1913-2013
Contributor	Fuller, Sandra T., 1945-
Publisher	Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
Date	1984-08-24; 1984-10-24
Date Digital	2014-05-07
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Spatial Coverage	Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, United States, http://sws.geonames.org/5780993/ ; Ogden, Weber County, Utah, United States, http://sws.geonames.org/5779206/ ; Japan, http://sws.geonames.org/1861060/
Subject	Kuramada, Jun, 1913-2013--Interviews; Japanese Americans--Utah--Interviews; Japanese American physicians; Dentists; Japanese American Citizens' League; Japanese American soldiers
Description	Transcript (typescript, 86 pages) of two interviews with Jun Kuramada, a Japanese-American living in Utah in 1984. Mr. Kuramada (b. 1913) talks about his parents, their life in Japan, and his mother's views on the importance of education. Other topics covered include life small towns throughout Southern Utah, discrimination, farming, practicing dentistry in Utah, the JACL, Salt Lake City during the World War II years, courting his wife, and stories of various other family members
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Genre	oral histories (literary works)
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Language	eng
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Relation	http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv45901
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ARK	ark:/87278/s64j1z8t
Topic	Japanese Americans; Japanese American soldiers; Japanese American Citizens' League; Dentists; Physicians
Relation is Part of	Mitsugi M. Kasai Memorial Japanese American Archive
Setname	uum_ijau
ID	898710
Reference URL	https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s64j1z8t

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OCR Text	Show OHI Jun Kuramada 10.24.84 s4:39 I'd say within the confines of thefumily itself. They've all done very well. So - even - as a family unit, like ------ and like - of oucrse we lost our daughter, bu t then the boys have all done well. ONefueing a movie director, one being an attorney and one - the one that is the news photogrpaher for And of course, this othercne, well, we don't know what's going to happen to him becuase he's still in school. He got -he has all these muscial instruements that he's trying to figureout which one he wants to play the most, I guess. SF That's great. JK Well, he was -he was playing in the Junior Symphony. Andhe's one of these--well, now, all of these are classics. See. And -he's not one for rock and roll. He's not one for the modern trend ofmusic, such as it is. He's got Tsch . ..:. Bethoven, he's got ot ave that particular type. An so he plays the French horn. SF That's a wonderful instrument ••.• JK That We-ve had - Then he messes around in thepiano. I don't thikn he's very proficient in any one of them, but atleast he toys with the idea thatsome day he might be playing with me pf them, aside fr0m the fact that he takes all these language courses. He's studying Japanese, Chinese, Russian. And he's very proficient in German. I uact,he's very fluent in German. And yet, -Well, it's a littlebit of a question or not- what is he going to make a living at. Inthis day of so calledhigh economy,
Reference URL	https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s64j1z8t/898700