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Title
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Toshio Inahara oral history audio recording on being a Japanese American in Oregon during World War II, Part 2
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Description
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Part 2 of an audio recording of an oral history of Dr. Toshio Inahara, speaking about his experience as a Japanese American in Washington County, Oregon. Topics in this section include: birth in 1921 in Tacoma, WA; moving to Hillside near Forest Grove, OR in 1931; his father learning to farm and raising strawberries; education in a one-room schoolhouse; playing baseball; going to the Japanese School in Banks on Sundays; driving a truck beginning at age 10; moving to other farm properties near Hillsboro and Helvetia; building a house near Hillsboro in 1941; hearing about Pearl Harbor and facing discrimination and restrictions; getting a special permit for his family to spend the war farming in Eastern Oregon, avoiding detention at Minidoka internment camp; moving to Vale, Oregon; renting a former chicken hatchery as a house; losing most of their land in Washington County; leasing their house to a white family during the war; going to college to become a doctor; the postwar Japanese community; and other topics. There is a transcript of this interview.
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Contributor
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Dehn, Beth
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Goss, Lauren
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Creator
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Inahara, Toshio
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Date
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2011
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Is Part Of
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Japanese American collection
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Format
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MP3
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Language
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English
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Identifier
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WCM_OH_333
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Subject
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Washington County (Or.) -- History
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Japanese Americans -- History
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, American
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Rights
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In Copyright
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http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
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Extent
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1 sound file (45 min.)
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Spatial Coverage
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Washington County (Or.)
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Forest Grove (Or.)
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Hillsboro (Or.)
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Type
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Sound
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Source
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Washington County Museum
