Interviews with Japanese in Utah: Alice Kasai
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@ University of Utah - J. Willard Marriott Library
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Transcript (typescript, 199 pages) of three interviews with Alice Kasai, a Japanese-American living in Utah in 1984. [Note: Third interview, Oct. 25, 1984, is sometimes mislabeled 1-25-84]. Mrs. Kasai (b. 1916) describes the arranged marriage of her parents in Japan, their life together in Seattle, Washington, and the decision to send Alice and her sister to Japan to be cared for by relatives. She also talks about her childhood in Japan with her grandmother, returning with her mother and younger brother to Utah, and life in mining communities. Other topics covered include going to school, her courtship and marriage to Henry Kasai, life in Salt Lake during World War II and the period of Henry's internment, the isssue of redress for Japanese internees, the Japanese American Citizens League (JACL), religion, the Bahai faith, the NAACP, and civil rights
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Fuller, Sandra T., 1945
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