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Title
Oral History Interview with Fumiko Deguchi
Date Created
April 18th, 1988
Description
Issei female, born July 1, 1904. Mrs. Deguchi immigrated to the U.S. in 1923 after an arranged marriage in Japan. The Deguchis bought farm land with a group of families under the name of a Nisei. Mrs. Deguchi was head of the family, managing the strawberry farm and family
father-in-law controlled money. In 1942 when she was forty-two, Mrs. Deguchi had six children, ages one to seventeen. The family went to Pinedale Assembly Center in Fresno, then to Poston, Arizona.
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