Digitized audio recording of interview with Chiho Tomita (1890-1988) in 1985, with abridged English transcript (49 pages). Tomita discusses his early life in Fukushima, Japan, his reasons for immigrating to the United States in 1907, and his journey. He discusses adjusting to life in Portland, Oregon, and describes working in apple orchards in Hood River, Oregon. He talks about his marriage to Matsuyo Osawa in 1918, and about raising a family. He speaks about the Japanese American community in Hood River, and about the Japanese Methodist Church. He discusses purchasing an apple orchard in 1937, and talks about running it. He shares his experiences after Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, including preparing his property before the forced removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans. He describes living conditions at the Pinedale Assembly Center in Fresno, California, and at the Tule Lake incarceration camp in California and the Minidoka camp in Idaho. He discusses working on farms in Ontario and Nyssa, Oregon, while his family remained at Minidoka. He shares his feelings about the incarceration of Japanese Americans during the war. He discusses returning to the Hood River Valley after the war ended, and the discrimination that Japanese Americans experienced. He closes the interview by talking about becoming a U.S. citizen in the 1950s, about his activities at the time of the interview, and about his hopes for future generations of Japanese Americans.