Box 1
Container
Contains 15 Results:
Sue Kaneko
File — Box: 1, Folder: 11
Scope and Contents
Mrs. Kaneko reminisces about World War II, her husband's job in North China, marriages and divorce, her livelihood, and raising her son.
Dates:
1964-1969
Toshiyuki Kano
File — Box: 1, Folder: 12
Scope and Contents
Mr. Kano (b. 1914) recalls his early life in Hawaii, schooling and the military in Japan. He also discusses his experiences in World War II, military prisoners and trials, and his hospitalization for malaria.
Dates:
1964-1969
Alice Kasai
File — Box: 1, Folder: 13-14
Scope and Contents
Mrs. Kasai (b. 1916) reminisces about her birth in Seattle, and being taken to Japan to live with her grandparents until the age of five. She recalls life in the mining camp of Latuda, Utah, Boishakunin (arranged) marriage, and the circumstances of her marriage to Henry Kasai. She gives biographical information about Henry and discusses the early years of the JACL, as well as her personal experience of discrimination prior to World War II, reaction to the war in Utah, and the formation of the...
Dates:
1964-1969
Alice Kasai and Others
File — Box: 1, Folder: 15
Scope and Contents
This is a continuation of an interview conducted on 30 October 1966 with Alice Kasai, Josie and Rupert Hachiya, Elna Miya, and Yukiko Kimura. The earlier interview transcript is not in the collection at this time. The group discusses the Japanese lending practice of tanamoshi, Japanese enterprise, life in the mining camps, picture brides, funeral customs, and various aspects of Japanese language and culture.
Dates:
1964-1969
Mary Kasai
File — Box: 1, Folder: 16
Scope and Contents
Mary Kasai was born in Buhl, Idaho, and moved to Pocatello with her parents in the mid-1930s. She discusses the Mary Kasai School of Dancing in Pocatello, famous pupils, attributes of a dancer, her first dance studio, national dance organization, family, Japanese dance styles, Odori, her relationship with her students, ballet council examinations, and her work with beauty pageant contestants.
Dates:
1964-1969