Interviews with Japanese in Utah: Nobuzo Endo

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Nebuzo Enqo 3-30-84 s~:15 ~ SF OK, now ·why was the camp bad for the little children. NE Well. When you have too many people and too many chiildren in a place like that, naturally they don't supervise their little ones. When! say that, maybe some people will resent mystatement but that's the way I look at it. And, you have no freedom in that camp. That's another man reason. SF You mean you had no freedom to leave. Or there was no freedom for people to do .what they wanted to do. NE That's it - that's it. SF OK, what else. NE That's about most of the biggest reason. To me. SF What did you think of the quarters when you saw them. Did you - did you ~t to go inside. NE Oh, yes, it's a very livable furnished it. And everything is furnished by government. For instance, like Topaz in the winter time, it's - it's pretty cold over there, so they have to have a heating facility. And they furnish the coal to burn the stove to heat up the room. And then there'snothing to worry about, you see. SF So from wheere you looked, you were worrying about the cold? NE I had to worry about everything. I think I stayed one night with a friend. SF How was the fuod. NE The food, I thoughtit was pretty good for what they do over there. Theydon't work. They just - Some of them, they say they work but that's just easy very easy work and not like people outside, you know. b~~afhey fed them, why I think -- I thought was good enough·