| 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 75 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_ijau |
| ID |
901603 |
| OCR Text |
Show 74 Conservation work, involvement in the church, so I got to know quite a few people in the county. The first year I got in, I had to do a lot of thinking. I thought how far can I push a Caucasian when he comes into my office. Being county commissioner, you've got some tough problems. Number one is zoning, solid waste, animal control, all your social programs, and generally a green county commissioner will receive those programs that the others don't want. And I got all the human resource programs. LK: Like what? vfuat's human resources? YI: Mental health, human problems, all the government youth programs, all your other programs. LK: You got them because the others didn't want them? YI: Didn't want them. They're headaches. You're dealing with low income, you're dealing with alcoholics, you're dealing with minorities, and they didn't want them, and I was glad to get them, because I love to work with people. Well, that was the foremost thing in my mind, was how far can I sit across the table as a county commissioner and push a Caucasian on a point. One fellow come who was on a zoning, hopping mad. Generally when they come it, they've got a blinder on their thinking about their problem. I listened |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6087p40/901603 |
