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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vh Frank Miyamoto Interview I Segment 12 (ddr-densho-1000-50-12)

Comparing Japanese community development with other immigrant groups

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-50-12/

vh Frank Miyamoto Interview I Segment 11 (ddr-densho-1000-50-11)

Role of the business associations in the development of Seattle's Japantown's businesses and industries

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-50-11/

vh Frank Miyamoto Interview I Segment 13 (ddr-densho-1000-50-13)

Gambling and the Japanese American underworld

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-50-13/

vh Frank Miyamoto Interview I Segment 6 (ddr-densho-1000-50-6)

"Ken" (prefecture) connections: how Japanese geography affected Japanese American businesses

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-50-6/

vh Fumi Kaseguma Interview Segment 4 (ddr-densho-1000-203-4)

Helping in family's dry cleaning shop

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-203-4/

vh Ayako Murakami - Masako Murakami Segment 2 (ddr-densho-1000-63-2)

Early years in Seattle, opening a retail store

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-63-2/

vh Ayako Murakami - Masako Murakami Segment 3 (ddr-densho-1000-63-3)

Saving money to start the family business, Higo's Ten Cent Store

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-63-3/

vh Jim Akutsu Segment 4 (ddr-densho-1000-2-4)

The family business survives embezzlement and the Great Depression

Interview was conducted over two days because of delays caused by technical difficulties.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-2-4/

vh Tomio Moriguchi Interview I Segment 4 (ddr-densho-1000-59-4)

Description of father, values and personal philosophies

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-59-4/

vh Tomio Moriguchi Interview I Segment 3 (ddr-densho-1000-59-3)

Running store and raising the family, "The quiet strength" of mother

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-59-3/

vh Tomio Moriguchi Interview I Segment 2 (ddr-densho-1000-59-2)

Father's business making and delivering food to the Issei work camps, origins of Uwajimaya

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-59-2/

vh Tomio Moriguchi Interview III Segment 3 (ddr-densho-1000-61-3)

The cooking process for satsumaage

Filmed on location.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-61-3/

vh Tomio Moriguchi Interview III Segment 1 (ddr-densho-1000-61-1)

Where it all began, a look at the current production of satsumaage and a discussion of how it differs from when his father first made it by hand

Filmed on location.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-61-1/

vh Tomio Moriguchi Interview III Segment 4 (ddr-densho-1000-61-4)

Walking through the process of making satsumaage

Filmed on location.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-61-4/

vh Tomio Moriguchi Interview III Segment 2 (ddr-densho-1000-61-2)

The equipment used in making satsumaage

Filmed on location.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-61-2/

vh Mae Iseri Yamada Interview Segment 5 (ddr-densho-1000-267-5)

Father's penchant for communication and customer service

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-267-5/

vh Fumiko Uyeda Groves Segment 11 (ddr-densho-1000-10-11)

The family business, Home Brew Supply

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-10-11/

vh Marion Tsutakawa Kanemoto Interview Segment 13 (ddr-densho-1000-148-13)

Description of the Pacific Market, father's business

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-148-13/

vh Mii Tai Interview Segment 3 (ddr-densho-1000-186-3)

Description of parents' laundry business

This interview was conducted as part of a project to capture stories of the Japanese American community of Spokane, Washington. Densho worked in collaboration with the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-186-3/

vh Mii Tai Interview Segment 4 (ddr-densho-1000-186-4)

Living above family's laundry business

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-186-4/