Tom Kinomoto recalls living in the Seattle area prior to the bombing of Pearl Harbor and internment in Idaho during World War II. He later lived in Ogden and opened a Judo Club. His family was initially denied a business license due to discrimination against those of Japanese ancestry and—by the local Japanese-American community—against evacuees. The Judo Club was felt to be threatening to the mainstream and kept secret and exclusive at first, and then opened to the public. The interview took place on March 2, 1971.
