| 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 |
| Access Rights |
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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 |
| 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/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 |
| Title |
Page 83 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_ijau |
| ID |
898705 |
| OCR Text |
Show OHI Jun Kuramada 10.24.84 s4:44 JK I think it was a little difficult for Helen Ear the simple reason that there was that gap in communications. SF Oh, yes. JK Where - where - BEcuase - WEll, my mother could understand a little English, she never did really get to the point where she mastered the language. Andof course, she couldn't speak Chinese either. So. So it was a matter of not being able to communicate in the manner in which - which would our lives or antying like that. However, they did cope and they did get along. Even though therewere times of irritation. But then, they made the besttt it and they got along fairly well. AS a matter a fact, there were many times when my mother's friends and her contemporaries would always comment on the good care that Helen was extending to myllDther. SF That's a wonderful compliment. JK Well, it is. And in fact, she always did take very good care of her. Such as -eeing that she had her hair taken carem, that all of her clothese were taken care, and she wore the proper clothes. SF And ~erything matched. And be right jewelry •. JK And thingslike that. Those are things that I'm sure that my mother's firends always commented on how well she was being taken care c£. Which, for a period of time, when Sie was with my ' , brother, she didn't get that - she didn't receive that care for the simple reason that my sister-in-law - Well , she herself was |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s64j1z8t/898705 |
