Audio recording of interview with Hama Yamaki (1891-1988), with abridged English transcript (40 pages). Yamaki immigrated to Portland, Oregon, with her husband, Eitaro Yamaki, a year after they married in 1913. Five years later, they moved to the Hood River Valley, where they first purchased an orchard in Oak Grove, and later moved to Pine Grove. Yamaki discusses her her early life on a silkworm farm in Fukushima, Japan, talks about her marriage to Eitaro Yamaki, and describes immigrating to the United States. She talks about adjusting to life in Portland and shares the reasons she and Eitaro Yamaki moved to the Hood River Valley. She discusses their life in Oak Grove and Pine Grove, and talks about raising their four children. She shares her experiences after Japan attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941, and discusses making preparations before the forced removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans by the U.S. government during World War II. She describes living conditions at the Pinedale Assembly Center in Fresno, California, and the Tule Lake incarceration camp, and talks about leaving the camp in 1943 to work on a farm in Nampa, Idaho. She closes the interview by reflecting on her experiences as a first-generation Japanese American woman.