| 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 81 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_ijau |
| ID |
901441 |
| OCR Text |
Show OHI Okada Brothers 8-18-84 d5:82 195.;,53i~)r.r} As :icwJ as we bought this farmJr- we needed labor, a//;fl~i..; beets. We couldn' t~t.t kids to do it. We couldn't do it1 for sure. No. . 120 acres. 4M W~d raise 120 acres andthen we'd raise around 30 acres of tomatoes. See. Andwha twe 'd do is hire maybe 20-30 guysJ yoe-<. .kno;..t_, ttt -1 on..R /,A-d~ .rnudA [euf] 1 ,? . /} I AWE~ ~~ tU#~ /111-:C 10-15..1 to work. LK Who wouldyou be hiring? f - w~J //"th)~ labor from I Q/Sez-<1 A come in. And that used to be the mst headache involved. You had to send money down there. For paying - car payments, truck paymetns. L K Tobring them up here. 4M Bring them here. All right. Theystarted working in the deficit. They •cl t7w-L tl..l- - maybe $5,000. LK You mean, the whole group would-- 4M fhe whole group~ey'd start working. Thefirst day they come here, the~want grociers. They'd be starving. The truck payments is two monthsbehind or three months behind. Make it up and they'd be about 8,000 dollars ~~ . Theycould fly away and WE couldn't get the truck- you know- title or car title. Beucase ... /I-/4-4-j ~~ A'.x.i: LK It was in their name, right. ~M The anance company had thetitle. So it wouldbe year in and year out. Whenthey'd leave, maybe they'd have about four thousand dollars. Andthey'd'~ 4,000 dollars ahead and then Cdiwr10 it got worse. Then [/nJ;A) ---,1morep3.yments -~ore. . . [laughter],%;(.(.. ' . o/i ;. hvu. iheyP/o~ f15000 before they'~ -- and they'd work onthe farm. And |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6x93v1x/901441 |
