| Title |
Interviews with Japanese in Utah: Yasuo Sasaki |
| Alternative Title |
Yasuo Sasaki: interviews on March 30 and 31, 1985 |
| Creator |
Sasaki, Yasuo, 1911-2008 |
| Contributor |
Fuller, Sandra T., 1945- |
| Publisher |
Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
| Date |
1985-03-30; 1985-03-31 |
| Date Digital |
2014-05-07 |
| Access Rights |
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| Spatial Coverage |
Sugar City, Madison County, Idaho, United States, http://sws.geonames.org/5609169/ ; Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, United States, http://sws.geonames.org/5780993/ |
| Subject |
Sasaki, Yasuo, 1911-2008--Interviews; Japanese Americans--Utah--Interviews; Japanese American farmers |
| Description |
Transcript (typescript, 46 pages) of two interview with Yasuo Sasaki, a Japanese-American living in Utah in 1985. Mr. Sasaki (b. 1911) recounts family stories gleaned from his father's diaries and recalls his childhood in Salt Lake City. Other topics covered include education, the University of Utah, the political climate of the 1930s, and community 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/s6db9jpp |
| Topic |
Japanese Americans; Japanese American farmers |
| Relation is Part of |
Mitsugi M. Kasai Memorial Japanese American Archive |
| Setname |
uum_ijau |
| ID |
900944 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6db9jpp |
| Title |
Page 27 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_ijau |
| ID |
900923 |
| OCR Text |
Show OHI Yasuo Sasaki 3-31-85 sl:4 YS In third grade. 8 years old. I - And I was old enough -- SF Of course. YS And go by myself and take violin lessons, too. I was 8 years old. So !went to the lbrary and I went to music. SF Those were the two main things in - in your family's life, too. YS Yes. SF Your sisters and your other brothers. YS WE all took music instruments. But they had different interests than mine. But then all along, ah, we talked about my ancestry. At home, and since my ather corresponded with his brother who is a dentist, you know. Ah, they had - my career all mapped out. See. BEcuase grandfather is a doctor and - nothing more so, expected me to become a doctor. Because - becuase our families were qualifiedonly for that kind of limited profession, you know. SF Even though your father~d decidednot to do it. YS That'sright. SF Your son is going to do it. YS Yes. Had he been wealthy- he might have become a doctor over here. Butafter- havingchildrenmd so forth, he didn't have- I never asked him whether he ever intended to become a doctor or whated tobecome one, too. Becuase for - thefmily hd been doctors for a number of generations. Infact,I have, right ww, 1-2-3-4 cousins who are dentists. And one -2-3-4 cousins who are MDs. See. Sothat's all they know. They're stypid in everything else. SF I understand. . M. . Wow. Tha 's really something. Andyoujknew that |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6db9jpp/900923 |
