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) Empresário Sansei

Father created a partnership to grow and ship vegetables

When you don’t own any land, all you can do or the best you can do is to share crop with a landlord and you pay your rent through the crops that you grow. What I can recall was that the sharecropping was with a Swiss family, a Giatanini family in Salinas. They’re Swiss immigrants, but they controlled some of the land.

Together with about six or seven Issei Japanese, so about nine of them together formed a partnership to go into the farming business to grow and to ship vegetables. My father felt that there was no way that you could prosper at any way or accumulate anything unless you were not only a grower but also a shipper. And so therefore at an early age, that’s why he never finished his education. To grow and ship vegetables.

agricultura cultivo parceria rural

Data: March 22, 2018

Localização Geográfica: California, US

Entrevistado: John Esaki

País: Watase Media Arts Center, Japanese American National Museum

Entrevistados

Tom Yuki nasceu em 29 de junho de 1935 em Salinas, Califórnia. Seu pai pertencia a uma parceria agrícola antes da guerra e foi capaz de continuar o negócio enquanto estava encarcerado em Poston, Arizona, com a ajuda de seu parceiro de negócios via telefone e telegrama. Depois de voltar de Poston, a família mudou-se para Los Gatos, Califórnia e continuou os seus negócios. Tom foi para a Universidade de Santa Clara e juntou-se aos militares, sendo designado para a França como oficial de Quartel-Mestre. Ele trabalhava como administrador de contratos em uma empresa quando seu pai morreu, deixando Tom para assumir o negócio como sócio-gerente da Yuki Farms. Tom atuou como membro do conselho em muitas organizações, incluindo seu atual papel no Museu Nacional Japonês Americano.