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Japanese Americans -- Oregon

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 15 Collections and/or Records:

Frances Toyooka memoir

 Collection
Identifier: Coll 891
Abstract

Memoir of Frances Toyooka, typed by and with an introduction by her daughter, Janet Thibault. Toyooka, a second-generation Japanese American woman, was living in Troutdale, Oregon, when the United States entered World War II. The memoir primarily concerns her experience being incarcerated by the U.S. government at Minidoka, and then living at the Twin Falls Labor Camp, but also discusses living in Vanport, Oregon, and then northeastern Portland, Oregon, following the war.

Dates: 2016

Oral history interview with Kay N. Toyooka

 Collection
Identifier: SR 975
Abstract Oral history interview with Kay N. Toyooka, conducted in Japanese by Yasashi Ichikawa on April 16, 1992, as part of the Japanese American Oral History Project. Toyooka discusses his early life in Hiroshima, Japan, his immigration to the United States, and farm life in Oregon in the 1920s and 1930. He speaks about his experiences at the Portland Assembly Center in Portland, Oregon, and the Minidoka Relocation Center in Idaho as one of more than 120,000 Japanese Americans who were incarcerated...
Dates: 1992 April 16

Oral history interview with Jim Tsugawa

 Collection
Identifier: SR12292
Abstract

Oral history interview with Jim Tsugawa conducted by Sankar Raman and Elizabeth Mehren on July 19, 2018, for The Immigrant Story. Tsugawa was born in Hillsboro, Oregon, in 1932, and was incarcerated at the Minidoka War Relocation Center in Jerome County, Idaho, during World War II. He later served in the U.S. Army and became a dentist in Portland, Oregon.

Dates: 2018 July 19

Oral history interview with Tatsuro Yada

 Collection
Identifier: SR960
Abstract

Oral history interview with Tatsuro Yada conducted by Taka Mizote on March 8, 1992, as part of the Japanese American Oral History Project. Yada was born in Portland, Oregon, and grew up in Salem. After graduating from Willamette University, he took over the family farm. During World War II, he and his family were incarcerated by the U.S. government at the Tule Lake Relocation Center in California. After their release, he returned to farming.

Dates: 1992 March 8

Yasui test record

 Collection
Identifier: Mss2949Test
Abstract

Records of the Yasui Brothers Company store in Hood River, their farms and orchards at Willow Flat and Mosier, Oregon, and other businesses run by Masuo and Renichi Yasui from approximately 1908 until World War II incarceration. Also includes a small amount of family and personal records.

Dates: 1901-1987