Abstract Audio recordings of oral history interviews with 11 first-generation Japanese Americans in Hood River, Oregon, conducted by Linda Tamura from October 8, 1985, to May 31, 1986. The interviews were the basis for a book by Tamura, titled "The Hood River Issei: An Oral History of Japanese Settlers in Oregon's Hood River Valley." Interviewees discuss their early lives in Japan; their experiences as immigrants to the United States; their lives in the Hood River Valley of Oregon; and their...