| Title |
Interviews with Japanese in Utah: MItsugi Kasai |
| Alternative Title |
MItsugi Kasai: interview on August 30, 1984 |
| Creator |
Kasai, Mitsugi, 1918-2013 |
| Contributor |
Kelen, Leslie G., 1949- |
| Publisher |
Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
| Date |
1984-08-30 |
| Date Digital |
2014-05-07 |
| Access Rights |
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| Spatial Coverage |
Utah, United States, http://sws.geonames.org/5549030/ ; South Korea, http://sws.geonames.org/1835841/ ; Japan, http://sws.geonames.org/1861060/ |
| Subject |
Kasai, Mitsugi, 1918-2013--Interviews; Japanese Americans--Utah--Interviews; Japanese American soldiers; United States--Armed Forces--Japanese Americans; Military intelligence; Utah--Ethnic relations |
| Description |
Transcript (typescript, 164 pages) of an interview with Mitsugi Kasai, a Japanese-American living in Utah in 1984. Mr. Kasai (b. 1918) recalls his early life on an Idaho farm during the Great Depression. He also reminisces about his life-long career in military intelligence, including being stationed in post-war Japan and wartime Korea |
| 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/s6321crx |
| Topic |
Japanese Americans; Japanese American soldiers; Military intelligence |
| Relation is Part of |
Mitsugi M. Kasai Memorial Japanese American Archive |
| Setname |
uum_ijau |
| ID |
900802 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6321crx |
| Title |
Page 51 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_ijau |
| ID |
900687 |
| OCR Text |
Show LK MK LK MK LK MK What were you getting at with that? Of course, him being captain, they would respect the rank, being a captain is higher than a first lieutenant so it gave him a better opportunity to contact the prisoners of war and get better results than I would. Because of rank. And that was alright because I couldn't, I had a lot of things ~o take care of, being the chief of the detachment because when Woodrow Chin had left I was a Warrant Officer outranked Alfie LeMay so I was actually chief although our •.. Your ranks •.. ... right. With Captain LeMay and me a First Lietutenant. Did this cause some problems? No, it didn't cause any problems. In fact, like I said, after awhile he, Alfie LeMay wouldn't go out and do this routine things that had to be done. He just wouldn't do it so I made him responsible primarily for Camp 8. Let him handle Camp 8. Of course, I supervised his activities too because being the chief I'd be responsible if anything went wrong, it would come back to me. But I left him in charge of Camp 8 so to speak. That was the camp, the more important camp than Camp 3 and well, I won't say, important from the standpoint that all the PW didn't want to return to Mainland China although Camp 3 50 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6321crx/900687 |
