Audio recording of interview with Itsu Akiyama (1896-1996). Akiyama immigrated to the United States with her husband, Tomeshichi Akiyama, in 1916. They farmed in the Oak Grove area of the Hood River Valley in Oregon, and later had five children. Akiyama discusses her early life on a rice farm in Okayama, Japan; her wedding to Tomeshichi Akiyama in 1915, and her journey by ship to the United States. She also talks about the role of women in early 20th-century Japan. She discusses living in Oak Grove, talks about raising a family while working on a strawberry farm with no child care, and shares her experiences after Japan attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941, including her husband's arrest by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. She talks about her experiences during her incarceration by the U.S. government during World War II. She describes living conditions at the Pinedale Assembly Center in Fresno, California, at the Tule Lake incarceration camp in California, and at the Minidoka camp in Idaho. She talks about collecting shells to craft into flowers, and about the loyalty questionnaire that Japanese Americans were required to fill out. She discusses returning to the Hood River Valley after the end of the war, and closes the interview by reflecting on her experiences as a first-generation Japanese American woman, and by talking about her activities at the time of the interview.