| 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 82 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_ijau |
| ID |
901442 |
| OCR Text |
Show OHI Okada Brothers 8-18-84 s5:83 L K then towards the end, theyWtJ4Y workh • TheyAwork some where else, - becuase the;r 'd sei money. 0 0 [laughs] I THeyd get ready cash somewhere else. SO you'd be into the finance company for the -- the money ~getting them up here anG paying their groceries andwhat not, but they wouldn't be contracted to •. ~ end side fiYe begin side six LK So. 4..11 -ihe people got upset about the housing. And everything. And it had to be.,~ ~v-t12jJ;f~ ... )1~just like this one guy said, he sa/s, a guy come up there and said, - i.t:y; your house is in good shape for the laborers. Andhe says, it is? And he said, Yeah, you've got tomove out. L"/,tfv!(}A::.] And that's about what it got to. You know, it got to whereyou had to have your running water.We had water running and we had the showers and Ul~ in bere. £1. then they had to go to flush toilets. And then what reallylilledus. You had to have so many square feet per worker . . 31r'/ And, hey, they'd come up with ten kids. And -- maybe two of them wouldbe wo,_f,tJS • MAyebtwo of them would be workers. Out of the ten. Gee whiz. LfM And theycouldn't go out in be fields. So ••• _j "I yo-i- h, tA;ze f(K,(jJu//JPJ ;,C.#~S -- and 14Y1). -Jd/ ;,-,LR r~'({ "k~L- , / lMfm] th~transferAback and forth. Then a guy Atf(e would say, well, I'll pay you one more cent to pick my tomatoes. JJy W41<jt, J! l'qmp ;{ fa'· So And--~"' ~y(;( tfJOHR cA4~ , then the tomatoe company htJI-t£ and |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6x93v1x/901442 |
