| 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 67 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_ijau |
| ID |
900703 |
| OCR Text |
Show MK LK MK LK MK LK MK LK MK LK MK G-u=i=d=o=n. And that's the person who carries the flag? Yeah. While you're marching. Yeah, the person in the very front, you know. He made me the guidon personally. Well, the very first day we assembled outside the barracks. That's a pretty prestigious position do have? Oh, yeah, sure it is. But then by the second day, Kotinek put me back into the line and made another guy the guidon and Hennagis found out and he just balled that sergeant out in front of the whole com- · pany. He said, don't you ever do that again. Without asking me. So I was the guidon for the rest of basic training and when the time for bivouac, the last week confined to bivouac, we had to get out of the barracks and get out in the field. Uh huh. To apply everything that we learned. Uh huh. Well, I didn't have to stay out the full week. I came in,Hennagis brought me in at the end of the third day to maintain the progress chart and I was the only one in the company that was able to do it. The rest of them, they were all out in the field, but Sergeant Hennagis probably had a little pull within the company so he pulled me in and said, 66 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6321crx/900703 |
