This collection contains the professional papers of Susan Sunada spanning the period of 1960 to 2003. This collection consists of Sunada's research papers during her employment period with the Deseret News, political papers from her employment with Cache County, research papers on the Topaz detainment camp for Japanese Americans who were held in Utah during the World War II period, and research papers on Japanese Americans in Utah and the West. These papers include biographical information on thousands of Japanese Americans who have lived in Utah, photographs and research on Japanese American cemetery headstones, a complied collection from the English section of Utah Japanese American newspaper The Utah Nippo (1941-1946), and a compiled collection of photocopied newspaper clippings on Japanese Americans from newspapers throughout Utah and from southern Idaho that spans a one-hundred-year period.

Note: Some materials from this collection have been removed and were catalogued separately, including two issues of The Utah Nippo: Japanese-American Address & Telephone Directory (1963 and 1976) and Sunada's photographs, which were transferred to Special Collections and Archives photograph curator.