| Title |
Interviews with Japanese in Utah: Yukiyoshi Inouye |
| Alternative Title |
Yukiyoshi Inouye: interviews on December 18, 1987 |
| Creator |
Inouye, Yukus Yukiyoshi, 1916-2007 |
| Contributor |
Kelen, Leslie G., 1949- |
| Publisher |
Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
| Date |
1987-12-18 |
| Date Digital |
2014-05-07 |
| Access Rights |
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| Spatial Coverage |
Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, United States, http://sws.geonames.org/5780993/ ; Taylorsville, Salt Lake County, Utah, United States, http://sws.geonames.org/5782476/ ; Highland, Utah County, Utah, United States, http://sws.geonames.org/5775863/ ; Midvale, Salt Lake County, Utah, United States, http://sws.geonames.org/5778244/ ; Union, Salt Lake County, Utah, United States, http://sws.geonames.org/5783936/ |
| Subject |
Inouye, Yukus Yukiyoshi, 1916-2007--Interviews; Japanese Americans--Utah--Interviews; Japanese American farmers--Utah; Utah--Ethnic relations; Japanese Americans--Utah--Cultural assimilation |
| Description |
Transcript (typescript, 97 pages) of an interview with Yukus Yukiyoshi Inouye, a Japanese-American living in Utah in 1987. Mr. Inouye (b. 1916) discusses the immigration experience of family members, work, Japanese business in Salt Lake City, the family farm, including trucking produce from Salt Lake to Nevada, moving to Highland, Utah County during World War II, and his activity in the community. He also gives his impressions of ethnic relations in northern Utah |
| 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/s6087p40 |
| Topic |
Japanese Americans--Cultural assimilation; Japanese American farmers |
| Relation is Part of |
Mitsugi M. Kasai Memorial Japanese American Archive |
| Setname |
uum_ijau |
| ID |
901627 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6087p40 |
| Title |
Page 27 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_ijau |
| ID |
901555 |
| OCR Text |
Show 26 YI: No, Okinka means to wake up. Okinasai is the right way, but she cut it short. Then I joined the church at that time when I was 12 years old 13. LK: What is the church that you joined? YI: LDS. My friends I associated with were all LDS boys, and those associations I had was with LDS kids around the neighborhood, and my mother and dad were staunch Buddhists. But this is the advise they give me. "If your going to live in America, you do what you need to do to become an American ... So I joined the church when I was 12 years old, I was active till I graduated out of high school, where I was a work-aholic. That was my life story, was a workaholic. After I have a great time with high school, as you can see I played football, I played baseball at high school. I didn•t play basketball, I played that in junior high school. I was the ninth grade president when I graduated junior high school. Then I graduated high school in 33 and I was involved there. LK: Stop for a minute. ~fhat was your family life like. How did your family live. YI: They had a hard time, but since it was my sister•s folks was in the chicken business, my father, both hard workers, mother and father, frugal. They lived close to a Japanese |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6087p40/901555 |
