Oral history interview with Asayo Noji
Summary
Digitized audio recording of interview with Asayo Noji (1897-1994), conducted in 1986. Noji discusses her early life in Hiroshima, Japan; her marriage as a “picture bride” to Kichizo Noji; and her journey by ship to the United States in 1916. She talks about adjusting to life in Parkdale, south of Hood River, Oregon, and about raising a family. She talks about the arrangements the family made for the care of their property before the forced removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II. She talks about 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 discusses returning to the Hood River Valley after the end of the war. She closes by talking about her activities at the time of the interview, and by reflecting on her experiences as a first-generation Japanese American woman.
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