Digitized item from the Yasui Brothers business records, Mss 2949. The item, written in a pre-World War II Japanese script, is a draft of a resume and cover letter prepared by Masuo Yasui at the request of the Consulate General of Japan at Portland in regards to his nomination for an award for outstanding effort towards improving U.S.-Japan relationships from the Nippon Industrial Society. Information in the resume includes Masuo's education in Japan, his reason for moving to the U.S., his career after arriving in the U.S., the formation of the Columbia Grower Company, and his participation in a wide variety of community activities including the founding of the Japanese Association of Oregon, work to prevent the passage of anti-Japanese land exclusion bills, the founding of the Japan-America Society, and his reception of an award for distinguished industrial service from the Japan-America Industrial Association. The document also includes an overview of the Yasui Brothers business and a cover letter to the Consulate General of Japan at Portland. The document has been translated into English and modern Japanese, except for the final two pages, which consist of a second draft of the cover letter.