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Small business

Japanese American businesses, such as groceries, fish shops, laundries, barbershops, public bathhouses, restaurants, drugstores, and dry goods stores, sprang up in communities along the West Coast. Women and children were vitally important to these "mom and pop" enterprises, as their free labor allowed the family to survive and even prosper during lean times.

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Yae Wada Segment 1 (ddr-densho-1000-476-1)
vh Yae Wada Segment 1 (ddr-densho-1000-476-1)
Father's family background: establishing a laundry business
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-476-1/
Yae Wada Segment 2 (ddr-densho-1000-476-2)
vh Yae Wada Segment 2 (ddr-densho-1000-476-2)
Losing mother at an early age and opening a beauty shop
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-476-2/
Fumiko M. Noji Segment 21 (ddr-densho-1000-72-21)
vh Fumiko M. Noji Segment 21 (ddr-densho-1000-72-21)
Husband's job running a greenhouse
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-72-21/
Fumiko M. Noji Segment 20 (ddr-densho-1000-72-20)
vh Fumiko M. Noji Segment 20 (ddr-densho-1000-72-20)
Seattle's prewar greenhouse operators
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-72-20/
Frank S. Fujii Segment 3 (ddr-densho-1000-8-3)
vh Frank S. Fujii Segment 3 (ddr-densho-1000-8-3)
Helping to run the family-owned business, Fujii's Tavern

This interview was conducted over two days due to electrical problems. The majority of the interview was completed on the second day, September 5.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-8-3/
Esther Takei Nishio Interview Segment 3 (ddr-densho-1000-370-3)
vh Esther Takei Nishio Interview Segment 3 (ddr-densho-1000-370-3)
Father's work running carnival concessions

This material is based upon work assisted by a grant from the Department of the Interior, National Park Service. Any opinions, finding, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Department of the Interior.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-370-3/
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vh Minoru "Min" Tsubota Interview Segment 5 (ddr-densho-1000-149-5)
Parents' early businesses, running a small grocery store in Seattle and then a sawmill in Kent, Washington
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-149-5/
Kunio Otani Segment 36 (ddr-densho-1000-75-36)
vh Kunio Otani Segment 36 (ddr-densho-1000-75-36)
Early days working at the Columbia Greenhouse: "things were quite primitive"
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-75-36/
Kunio Otani Segment 37 (ddr-densho-1000-75-37)
vh Kunio Otani Segment 37 (ddr-densho-1000-75-37)
Customers at the Columbia Greenhouse
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-75-37/
Kunio Otani Segment 45 (ddr-densho-1000-75-45)
vh Kunio Otani Segment 45 (ddr-densho-1000-75-45)
Positives of running a family business
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-75-45/
Kunio Otani Segment 44 (ddr-densho-1000-75-44)
vh Kunio Otani Segment 44 (ddr-densho-1000-75-44)
Changing dynamics of the business
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-75-44/
Kunio Otani Segment 46 (ddr-densho-1000-75-46)
vh Kunio Otani Segment 46 (ddr-densho-1000-75-46)
Expansion of the greenhouse business
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-75-46/
Kunio Otani Segment 38 (ddr-densho-1000-75-38)
vh Kunio Otani Segment 38 (ddr-densho-1000-75-38)
Working at Columbia Greenhouse
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-75-38/
Kunio Otani Segment 42 (ddr-densho-1000-75-42)
vh Kunio Otani Segment 42 (ddr-densho-1000-75-42)
A different business philosophy at the Greenwood Greenhouse
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-75-42/
Kunio Otani Segment 39 (ddr-densho-1000-75-39)
vh Kunio Otani Segment 39 (ddr-densho-1000-75-39)
Deciding to start own greenhouse business
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-75-39/
Kunio Otani Segment 41 (ddr-densho-1000-75-41)
vh Kunio Otani Segment 41 (ddr-densho-1000-75-41)
Establishing Greenwood Greenhouse
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-75-41/
Kunio Otani Segment 43 (ddr-densho-1000-75-43)
vh Kunio Otani Segment 43 (ddr-densho-1000-75-43)
Difficult times in the greenhouse business
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-75-43/
Kunio Otani Segment 48 (ddr-densho-1000-75-48)
vh Kunio Otani Segment 48 (ddr-densho-1000-75-48)
Future of the Greenwood Greenhouse
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-75-48/
Kunio Otani Segment 40 (ddr-densho-1000-75-40)
vh Kunio Otani Segment 40 (ddr-densho-1000-75-40)
Buying Greenwood Greenhouse
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-75-40/
May K. Sasaki Segment 6 (ddr-densho-1000-79-6)
vh May K. Sasaki Segment 6 (ddr-densho-1000-79-6)
Father's difficulty with discrimination in the retail business
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-79-6/
Shosuke Sasaki Segment 3 (ddr-densho-1000-78-3)
vh Shosuke Sasaki Segment 3 (ddr-densho-1000-78-3)
Father's restaurant
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-78-3/
Yosh Nakagawa Interview Segment 12 (ddr-densho-1000-172-12)
vh Yosh Nakagawa Interview Segment 12 (ddr-densho-1000-172-12)
Entrepreneurial roots: helping in family grocery store as a child
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-172-12/
Yosh Nakagawa Interview Segment 13 (ddr-densho-1000-172-13)
vh Yosh Nakagawa Interview Segment 13 (ddr-densho-1000-172-13)
Memories of family grocery store: informal credit system
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-172-13/
Yosh Nakagawa Interview Segment 6 (ddr-densho-1000-172-6)
vh Yosh Nakagawa Interview Segment 6 (ddr-densho-1000-172-6)
Childhood memories: living above parents' grocery store, feelings of not fitting into the Japanese American community
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-172-6/
Edith Watanabe Segment 8 (ddr-densho-1000-101-8)
vh Edith Watanabe Segment 8 (ddr-densho-1000-101-8)
Working in the family laundry
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-101-8/
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