Iwasaki, Yasukichi
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Biography
Iwasaki was born in 1876; a native of the Shiga Prefecture, he arrived in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, in 1899 and entered the United States in 1901; he worked as a section hand in Missoula, Montana, a cannery worker in Anacortes, Washington, and a hotel manager in Tacoma, Washington; in 1904 he started to farm in Washington and eventually moved to Hillsboro, Oregon, to settle down as a farmer in 1913; he and his family were interned in the Minidoka Relocation Center in Hunt, Idaho, during World War II.
From the guide to the Yasukichi Iwasaki Papers, 1899-1965, (University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections.)
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Subjects:
- Japanese Americans
Occupations:
- Japanese American farmers
