| Title |
Interviews with Japanese in Utah: Okada brothers |
| Alternative Title |
Toru and Jim Okada: interview of August 18, 1984 |
| Creator |
Okada, Toru, 1919- ; Okada, Tetsu, 1926-2010; Okada, Kenge; Okada, Junior, 1929-1994 |
| Contributor |
Fuller, Sandra T., 1945- ; Kelen, Leslie G., 1949- |
| Publisher |
Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
| Date |
1984-08-18 |
| Date Digital |
2014-05-07 |
| Access Rights |
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| Spatial Coverage |
Honeyville, Box Elder County, Utah, United States, http://sws.geonames.org/5776087/ ; Deweyville, Box Elder County, Utah, United States, http://sws.geonames.org/5773850/ ; Tremonton, Box Elder County, Utah, United States, http://sws.geonames.org/5783768/ ; Hawaii, United States, http://sws.geonames.org/5855797/ ; California, United States, http://sws.geonames.org/5332921/ |
| Subject |
Okada, Toru, 1919- --Interviews; Okada, Tetsu, 1926-2010--Interviews; Okada, Kenge, 1922- --Interviews;; Okada, Junior, 1929-1994--Interviews; Japanese Americans--Utah--Interviews; Japanese American farmers; Utah--Ethnic relations; World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Japanese American; Buddhists--Utah; Arranged marriages |
| Description |
Transcript (typescript, 118 pages) of an interview by Sandra Fuller and Leslie Kelen with brothers Toru ("Beb"), Tetsu, Kenge and "Junior" Okada, Japanese-Americans living in Utah in 1984. In the transcript, Toru is called "1man," Kenge is "2Man," Junior is "3Man," and Tetsu is "4man." An unidentified woman, probably a wife, joined the conversation.The Okado brothers (b. 1919 to 1929) talk about the families of their mother and father in Japan, relocation to Hawaii, coming to Utah and raising sugar beets, and land ownership policies in the U. S. Other topics covered include picture brides, the Depression, civilian life during World War II, farming, and Japanese American organizations |
| 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/s6x93v1x |
| Topic |
Japanese Americans; Japanese American farmers |
| Relation is Part of |
Mitsugi M. Kasai Memorial Japanese American Archive |
| Setname |
uum_ijau |
| ID |
901478 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6x93v1x |
| Title |
Page 57 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_ijau |
| ID |
901417 |
| OCR Text |
Show OHI Okada Brothers 8-18-84 s3:58 I'm pretty sure. They took twox-rays and ... LK Youthink that's what it was... . . I J.o )t~r-l Youshould have asked ;.J;,t.J liJn. 'jO~ AJIA,//ilhave).that open heart surgery I: ..J.t~ru:..,y Now. THey given me open heart surgery about 5 years ago. "2 LK WHo w~ the one who went in next. i.tM I Wf!j drafted. LK Where didyou go. What part .. ~M European. 3M He just got there w/,.;1/ t·.f ~.~~ ·:J ov-eR' LK You got there in what year. lt/11. 45 0 LK You did get there at the tail end. if'M The war was over when we got ott~ OR~&A~. To g> overseas. They had us over there for 90 days I think, deciding what to do with us. They had- I thinkfuey had about oh- wellJall fue Japanese )t-W\Jl .lik from Hawaii. - Oh, thett was about-- ~oo j7 ~ ··• LK What regitftit~ we're you in~ qM Ah, we were with the inantry. See, the war over there - it had just ended as we got ready to go. They ~dn't know where to send ol z If us. They said, Allr.ight, who wants to volunteer to go to school. The Asian war was still on. To translate. Well, ~ s~gs, they always told me not to volunteer for anything. And so we just sat there. Andabout half of them volunteered to go to school. II tl They &iid, youcan get 30 days of leave. And that made a ~It of difference ,, ,, there. And go to MIT's school. Youknow, be transferred. So that took half of them out. And we stayed fuere for - 2 more weeks and then we went over to Europe. |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6x93v1x/901417 |
