Digitized item from the Yasui Brothers business records, Mss 2949. The item, written in a pre-World War II Japanese script, is a letter from Masuo Yasui to Junzaburo Hiraiwa, dated 27 July 1921. In the letter, Masuo gives family updates and discusses the apple market situation, the status of a Japanese exclusion bill in the Oregon legislature and the discouraging increase in such bills, economic difficulties and loss of value of some agricultural products, and the pressure of anti-Japanese trends. The letter has been translated into English and modern Japanese.