| Title |
Interviews with Japanese in Utah: Raymond Uno |
| Alternative Title |
Raymond Uno: interviews on September 27 and October 17, 1987 |
| Creator |
Uno, Raymond, 1930- |
| Contributor |
Kelen, Leslie G., 1949- |
| Publisher |
Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
| Date |
1987-09-27; 1987-10-17 |
| Date Digital |
2014-05-07 |
| Access Rights |
I acknowledge and agree that all information I obtain as a result of accessing any oral history provided by the University of Utah's Marriott Library shall be used only for historical or scholarly or academic research purposes, and not for commercial purposes. I understand that any other use of the materials is not authorized by the University of Utah and may exceed the scope of permission granted to the University of Utah by the interviewer or interviewee. I may request permission for other uses, in writing to Special Collections at the Marriott Library, which the University of Utah may choose grant, in its sole discretion. I agree to defend, indemnify and hold the University of Utah and its Marriott Library harmless for and against any actions or claims that relate to my improper use of materials provided by the University of Utah. |
| Spatial Coverage |
Ogden, Weber County, Utah, United States, http://sws.geonames.org/5779206/ ; Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, United States, http://sws.geonames.org/5780993/ ; Park County, Wyoming, United States, http://sws.geonames.org/5834587/ ; El Monte, Los Angeles County, California, United States, http://sws.geonames.org/5345743/ |
| Subject |
Uno, Raymond, 1930- --Interviews; Japanese Americans--Utah--Interviews; Japanese Americans--Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945; Heart Mountain Relocation Center (Wyo.); United States--Armed Forces--Japanese Americans; Japanese American soldiers; Judges--Utah; Utah--Ethnic relations |
| Description |
Transcript (typescript, 134 pages) of an interview with Raymond Uno, a Japanese-American living in Utah in 1987. Judge Uno (b. 1930) reminisces about his childhood in Ogden, Utah, the family's move to California in the mid-1930s, and subsequent experiences during the Japanese relocations of World War II. The Uno family was sent to the Hart Mountain relocation center in Wyoming. In 1948 Uno enlisted in the United States Army and served in post-war Japan. He also relates his experiences in the Utah judicial system |
| 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/s603089w |
| Topic |
Japanese Americans; Japanese American soldiers; Evacuation and relocation of Japanese Americans (United States : 1942-1945); Heart Mountain Relocation Center (Wyo.); Judges--U.S. states |
| Relation is Part of |
Mitsugi M. Kasai Memorial Japanese American Archive |
| Setname |
uum_ijau |
| ID |
900074 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s603089w |
| Title |
Page 19 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_ijau |
| ID |
899957 |
| OCR Text |
Show being the eighth which is Hachi so his name was Hachiro and he was the eighth boy and then there were two girls, two girls married two brothers the Domoto brothers and both brothers were very good businessmen and one formed the North American Trading Import,Export Tradiing Company and the o£her one went into the essentially the nursery business and they were both successful. The one brother that had the trading company that was, you know, very wealthy and all his children went to school back East, he was going back to Japan to be decorated by the Emperor for his contribution, you know, in trade and things like that and he died I think, I don't know whether he reached Japan or whether he died on the boat but he died at that time. And then when the war started, you know, seized all their assets of that trading company but I have a little sheet of paper I don't know who mimeographed it or what but it tells his history of what he did, you know, coming to the United States and what he accomplished and I remember reading in there at the time I guess the yen was about two to one, not 150, although the value of the yen now is a lot stronger compared to the dollar. At that time it was something like two to one and they were doing something like 25 million dollars worth of, you know, import,export which I guess at that time was pretty big. So he was doing pretty 18 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s603089w/899957 |
