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English
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Idaho Farmer, Japanese Diarist : Cultural Crossings in the Intermountain West
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Idaho Yesterdays
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Fall 1995
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39
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no.3
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2-12
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Masayoshi Fujimoto (1916-1987) was born in Rexburg, Idaho to immigrant parents of Japanese descent. When he was four, his family returned to Japan. In 1933 at the age of seventeen, he left Japan and returned to Rexburg where he attended public school and farmed with his uncle and cousins. In 1941 he was drafted into the army. He was married in 1945 and discharged from the army in 1946. He and his bride returned to the Idaho farm. Raised as a Buddhist, in 1954 he joined the Mormon Church. Using Fujimoto's forty volumes of daily diary entries, the author offers some insights into how one individual who was raised and educated in Japanese culture and community was able to make accommodations through his social, agricultural, and religious experience in rural southeastern Idaho.