| Title: |
Toshiko Kubota
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| Document type: |
Oral history
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| Accessibility: |
Free Only
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| Repository: |
California State University, Long Beach. Virtual Oral/Aural History Archive
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| Collection: |
Asian Americans: South Bay/Los Angeles Nisei
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| Description: |
Toshiko Kubota was born in Wilmington but spent most of her life in Gardena, California where she was a single career woman.
She describes a comfortable life in a close-knit family of three daughters. Kubota's father worked as a car salesman in Los Angeles while her mother worked as a seamstress. In 1942, the family volunteered for early incarceration at a concentration camp at Manzanar, California.
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| Original Language: |
English
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| Audio: |
[Audio available]
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| Speaker: |
Kubota, Toshiko
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| Speaker gender: |
Female
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| Speaker place of birth: |
Los Angeles, CA; California; United States; North America
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| Speaker race: |
Asian
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| Speaker occupation: |
Budget analyst; Laborer
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| Document date: |
Undated
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| Organizations discussed: |
Manzanar War Relocation Center, Owens Valley, CA
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| Historical events discussed: |
Japanese American Internment, 1942-1945; World War II, 1939-1945
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| Locations discussed: |
Asia; California; Gardena, CA; Japan; North America; Owens Valley, CA; United States
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| Topics discussed - ASP terms: |
Asia; California; Gardena, CA; Japan; Japanese American families; Japanese American Internment, 1942-1945; Manzanar War Relocation Center, Owens Valley, CA; North America; Oral history; Owens Valley, CA; United States; World War II, 1939-1945
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| ASP release: |
2007-01
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| Document code: |
OHI0035151-38719
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