| 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 61 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_ijau |
| ID |
901589 |
| OCR Text |
Show 60 time, they just went into shell. I'm grateful that I didn't. I'd taken my whole family into a shell. Well I took the positive attitude, and I said to myself and told the wife, my wife's been .. (turn tape over) .• you've got to have the support of a wife. She's been a real supporter. Didn't object to anything I done. Real ... worked right along with me. Sometimes, she didn't know what I was doing (laughter) in a sense, but always supported me. Well .. LK: Were you angry ~hen you heard that? YI: Not angry, I just said, "hey they don't know me and I don't know them." ny philosophy--no strangers, friends you haven't met. There was a great family by the name of Hyde. Bill Hyde asked me to work in the scouts, and I jumped at the chance. That was tough. Can you i~agine walking into a bunch of scout age? That was in '44 or the first of '45, but I worked diligently and went to all the meetings and I got the scouts going, and Wayne McDigg, I was on scout committee, troop committee here in Hyland. In '46, Wayne McDigg was the district scout director of this end of the county. He asked me to be a neighborhood committeeman, and I had four troops. I had to start all over again, walking in there and those kids vvould look at me, "~'·lhat • s Jap doing here, .. you know? Because they heard at home. • . Nell, I didn't let it bother me. I just worked hard. 1947, |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6087p40/901589 |
