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.

Father's business partner operated their farming business during WWII

In 1940 when the war started of course we went to camp, but fortunately Tom Bunn continued to operate the business, and my father and Tom Bunn continued to correspond back and forth by telephone by telegram while we were in the Salinas Assembly Center. And I remember Tom Bunn coming to visit us in the Relocation Camp in Salinas, Rodeo Ground, and my father would get permission to go to the camp headquarters to meet with Tom Bunn. I went with him. Tom Bunn would bring me a stick of salami and my sister a doll. I don’t know how my father communicated with Tom Bunn while we were relocated to Arizona—Poston, Arizona—but somehow they did.

agricultura campos de la Segunda Guerra Mundial cultivo economía gestión negocios 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)