| 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 95 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_ijau |
| ID |
901455 |
| OCR Text |
Show OHI Okada Brothers 8-18-84 s7:96 L K LK LK He's got to farm it~ And ~f.ae.;/~b . a blrden on you-tJ.){. o Andi~probably floods the ~ket, gets more stuffon the market. And Jk dies. ~ Sathe whole idea ofAsubsidy thing was to keep the market balanced, of? Qf least theoretically. To keep the market from getting ------too much stuff on the market. Try to keepthe prices ••. i).d a,t.L f,ULI( JA lot of politics .bemr playecf • "?;/uz~ a.J/ /1.-s. /lfrtl Aihe financial situationof certain mrmers aremaking them ~t their ;, .s.J~~ od cvny J,.-11'-' j~{.~Mtr cc--.ta]prices are so high. OK,now, they've a loan value on wheat now. You can go out and .jP'f~ government loan. Like last year, it was 3.65,3.W Thisyear, it's dropp.e& down to3.29. OK. Ifyou're going t!)(.(-t On the market _to buy wheat,t""the loan value is 329, you'rerot going to get more than 3.29. You're foolish. A Jt'ni~ says ~ listen, if the governoment's going to give you loan money, farmers II arenot going tosell it for 3.29, you know;they're going to take a - government loan. But if theytake thct,t government loan,[.i/tu ;s] ten percent -11% interest tacked m to it every day. Then ther-e 's a storage. Ifyoutake it down there io t1. s~rage. It's 3 cents a monthJthat they take. OK, a farmer, poor farmer, gotf2000 an acre -/v .J>~Cf'- what's he going to do';- He's g:>t to sell. He's ~t to sell. Becuasehe's got to make fuel paymeni3 and everything. All right. This b~tk~. over !ere, he puts :h a bid of say $3. He don't care whether he gets it or he don't -(}e. i ,'j . ~ts money for him. |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6x93v1x/901455 |
