Entrevistas

1. His family's migration to Salinas, California

2. Father created a partnership to grow and ship vegetables

3. Father's business partner operated their farming business during WWII

4. Father was convinced the constitution would protect him

5. Japanese were not welcomed back to Salinas

6. Felt no hostility in Los Gatos, California after the war

7. Able to settle easily in Los Gatos with foresight and luck

8. Requested assignment in Europe to avoid combat in the Korean War

9. Taking over his father's business after father's accident

10. Mochitsuki tradition

11. Feelings about redress

12. Mr. Hirasaki brought World Fair Japanese pavilion to Gilroy

Yuki,Tom

(n. 1935) Empresario sansei.

Japanese were not welcomed back to Salinas

Politically speaking, Salinas was also taken over by the people from Oklahoma, the Dustbowl people from Oklahoma who took over the farming and supervisory position in Salinas, and of course politically speaking they didn’t want the Japanese to come back because it was competition. And as a result, Salinas has been for a long time did not want the Japanese to return.

As a matter of fact, my father’s company wrote a letter to him telling him that we employees of the Salinas Valley Vegetable Exchange—that’s the name of the company my father owned—that he would not return to Salinas. And as a result we did not go back to Salinas. So that’s the reason why we relocated to Los Gatos.

California posguerra racismo Salinas Estados Unidos Segunda Guerra Mundial

Fecha: March 22, 2018

Zona: California, US

Entrevista: John Esaki

País: Watase Media Arts Center, Japanese American National Museum

Entrevista

Tom Yuki nació el 29 de junio de 1935 en Salinas, California. Su padre era parte de a una asociación de agricultura antes de la guerra y pudo continuar el negocio mientras estaba encarcelado en Poston, Arizona, con la ayuda de su socio, por medio de teléfono y telegrama. Después de regresar de Poston, la familia se mudó a Los Gatos, California, y continuó su negocio. Tom fue a la Universidad de Santa Clara y se enlistó en el ejército, donde fue asignado a Francia como oficial de intendencia. Tom trabajaba como administrador de contrato en una corporación cuando su padre falleció, y tuvo que encargarse del negocio como socio gerente de Yuki Farms. Tom se ha dedicado como miembro del comité de varias organizaciones, incluyendo su rol actual en el Museo Nacional Japonés Americano. (Diciembre de 2018)