Audio recording of interview with Masaji Kusachi (born Masaji Imai, 1903-1986), with abridged English transcript (49 pages). Kusachi immigrated to the United States to join his father in 1919. In 1930, he married Haruko Faye Kusachi, a widow with one child; they lived in Dee, south of Hood River, Oregon, and had six more children. Kusachi discusses his early life in Okayama, Japan, and shares his reasons for joining his father in the United States in 1919. He talks about adjusting to life in the U.S. He discusses his marriage to Haruko F. Kusachi, talks about being adopted by the Kusachi family as a yoshi (a Japanese practice in which a man becomes a family's eldest son through marriage), and speaks about the work he did in Dee. He also discusses raising seven children. He shares his experiences after Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, and describes living conditions at the Portland Assembly Center and the Tule Lake incarceration camp in California. He talks about Haruko F. Kusachi’s death from cancer during their incarceration, then discusses his experience as the sole caregiver for seven children while incarcerated at the Minidoka camp in Idaho. He talks about returning to Dee after the end of the war, and describes the state of his property. He talks about his involvement in the Hood River Japanese Society, and closes the interview by sharing his feelings about becoming a U.S. citizen.