| 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 78 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_ijau |
| ID |
901438 |
| OCR Text |
Show OHI Okada Brothers 8-18-84 s5:79 3M LK LK -¥M ,'./,1/m;f)~ you. J JijdAalot more-- whenyousellthem quick - ~~~~ • And they know~at1o sell, how to sell. That's --you've got tobe iJfl eN' top of the market. ~0 -- like the smaller farmer ' s here •• ~ Yeah,they go to packers. The packer takes the top off automatically. Takes the top off - 6- ;:'PRC.~nk'f~ i/? ,. , /f(_l<'~ /i a-r.of ~ h k/&J ar,o~~ ~_,e~h~ # -;:&.-e A8/Vcif·~J . 3M Now if the o· nions grow up to say ten dollars a bag, the packer will take maybe 2 dollars. Andthen his packing fee is always stable. If's .N'1.35 It doesn't make a bit of difference j/(()tf/( CM/e4-1s y-<~ ;to~· a dollar- it's still going to cost lim 1.35 -the guy --to II pack it. Andyousay, 11 w:!ll, why pack it~ ,Bui he's betterof getting a dollar than throwing it away. So he rather reach for the dollar. So- like if it goes to two dollars, a guy - the grower - he didn't J,e, make a cent on his -he didn't -~doesn't get a cent for his onions. Beca~se thepacker takes it all and the shipper takes it all. Whereas us guys, we can pack it and it can cost us the 40 cents for the bag and the labor for the women -- beca.dseus guys - we lre '/~/1-R. ~c.:Ju/vcl salary anyWay. L K Of course that still omes back to the mmily though. ~M Sure, it comes back into the family. So it doesn'tmake any difference. We pack it and it costs usfue forty cents. And he charges us, what, ten cents, so we've got fifty cents -where the other guy's got two dollars. |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6x93v1x/901438 |
