Fishing and canneries
Japanese Americans found work at salmon canneries along the Columbia River in Oregon and Washington, and their labor was welcomed in Alaskan towns such as Ketchikan and Petersburg as early as the 1890s. They traveled by ship to the cannery towns, where they slowly developed small communities whose population swelled with the yearly arrival of workers. Issei (Japanese immigrant) entrepreneurs started the oyster industry from scratch in Puget Sound. Japanese American oyster farms became thriving businesses before World War II.
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Richard Murakami Segment 11 (ddr-densho-1000-64-11)
Father's role in importing oysters from Japan
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Richard Murakami Segment 7 (ddr-densho-1000-64-7)
Growing up in a station house on pilings, family's Oyster Packing Co.
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Richard Murakami Segment 22 (ddr-densho-1000-64-22)
Quitting school to help with the oyster business
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Richard Murakami Segment 15 (ddr-densho-1000-64-15)
Family business: Eagle Oyster Packing Company
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Richard Murakami Segment 9 (ddr-densho-1000-64-9)
Memories of helping at the family's oyster business
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Eugene Tatsuru Kimura Interview Segment 11 (ddr-densho-1000-231-11)
Summer job working in the Alaska canneries