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Oral history interview with Tomo Shoji, April 10, 1985
Contact MOHAI to OrderInterview with Tomo Shoji about her experiences before and during World War II, conducted by Lorraine McConaghy for the Life on the Homefront Oral History Project, April 10, 1985. She discusses her parents' arrival in the U.S. and their work in a sawmill camp. Her mother later moved to Seattle and set up a midwifery practice for the Japanese community. She also discusses Pearl Harbor and Japanese American incareration; she was dismayed that her American citizenship did not protect her. She talks about discrimination, fighting with her husband over returning to Japan (he was Kibei, but she did not want to go because she had never been there), and not believing that Japanese behavior changed white attitudes for better or worse.
Copyright agreement: Yes
Digitized: Yes, from analog cassette to .wav files and to CD (.cda files)
Re-digitized in 2025 from analog cassette tape to .wav files.
Transcript: Yes, scanned from original analog to .pdf; original hard copy of rough draft and final transcript in admin file.
Copyright agreement: Yes
Digitized: Yes, from analog cassette to .wav files and to CD (.cda files)
Re-digitized in 2025 from analog cassette tape to .wav files.
Transcript: Yes, scanned from original analog to .pdf; original hard copy of rough draft and final transcript in admin file.
ID Number: 1985.134.22
Date: 1985
Physical Description: 1 sound cassette (62 min. 36 sec.) : analog + 1 transcript (18 pages)
Additional Information: Inventoried as part of a 2018 4Culture Collections Care grant.
View the finding aid for this collection at https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv89619
View the finding aid for this collection at https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv89619
Credit: MOHAI, Life on the Homefront Oral History Collection, 1985.134.22
Copyright: All Rights Reserved
Subjects:
World War II, 1941-1945 (WWII),
Japanese American Incarceration,
Asian American,
Discrimination,
Immigration,
Lumber and Logging
Media:
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