SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Jiro Kobayashi PERIOD COVERED: 1907-1972 RECORDED: New Denver (B.C.), 1972-04-25 SUMMARY: Jiro Kobayashi came to Canada at age 21 in 1907 to study about North American farming for two years. He was a graduate of the school of agriculture in Osaka. He traveled in the Pacific Northwest to look at farming. He came to Vancouver and started a potato farm on Lulu Island. After five difficult years he gave up farming and went to the Skeena River as a fisherman. Stayed for eight years. Worked as a sawmill worker. Then became a landlord. During the war he was in Tashme Camp. Moved to New Denver and was a house painter.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Shigetaka Steve Sasaki : judo instruction in Canada PERIOD COVERED: 1920-1972 RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1972-10-21 SUMMARY: Shigetaka Steve Sasaki was born in 1903 and came to Vancouver in 1922 to run a confectionary shop on Powell Street. He opened a judo hall called Kidokan which had 200 members. He was a judo instructor for the RCMP until World War II. He moved to Tashme Camp and later to Ashcroft. Ex-president of the Canadian Judo Association.