| 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 116 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_ijau |
| ID |
901476 |
| OCR Text |
Show OHI Okada Brothers 8-18-84 s9: 117 Wm LK Well- ,,('.. J ONce we11 all/Stn'>'-( That really is- alot of the people in thevalley feelthat you gusy have really held toge{er and I think lookup to you for that. 4M Well,more or less. Wm And the kids get along,too. ~~ from thestart, we had to hold together becuse we had nothi~g L K ~M J.M Wm l:fm 3M else .• We only had the four of us. That was it. Especially aftefour father died. Yeah, we had no Dad. That was the main thing. I give alot of credit to mymother to hold us togehter. Yes, his mother was-- Vell, we didn't have,V~hing to start out with, that's for sure. ~ were- I mean, when we , ___ we left that place and came to this other ---- . ace, we didn't have nothing- we still owed the rent money. WE had to pay that the followingyear. Ynfact, we even had to work that out and pay iJ the fdlowing year. But mymother-:; don't know why) She just £' hii.A;(j i# -1-J..t~ J )/~ /.4 nee~ to pay things and we got ahead. And we didn't have enough money to put a headstone on my father'sgrave~ lean still remember that. So when we got ahead, we -- that'sthefirst thing that we wanted-- [/P.ughs].But it's good though. It's- I think you go through£,0,~]~.,.:1 ... ~we know we can relate. \ten we seeotherpeople struggling - we can relate to it. And -we can relate to good times. And we can relate to poortimes. And - |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6x93v1x/901476 |
