Digitized audio recording of interview with Itsu Akiyama (1896-1996), conducted over multiple sessions from December 1985 to January 28, 1986. 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 in 1916. She discusses living in the Oak Grove area of the Hood River Valley in Oregon, 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 discusses returning to the Hood River Valley after the end of the war, and closes by reflecting on her experiences as a first-generation Japanese American woman, and by talking about her activities at the time of the interview.