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"moreinfo": "<div class=\"section\" id=\"For_More_Information\">\n <h2>\n <span class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"For_More_Information\">\n For More Information\n </span>\n </h2>\n <div class=\"section_content\">\n <p>\n Kikumura, Akemi. \"Gambling Den.\"\n <i>\n Rafu Shimpo\n </i>\n , Dec. 20, 1979, 12, 20, 31–33, 37.\n </p>\n </div>\n</div>",
"footnotes": "<div class=\"section\" id=\"Footnotes\">\n <h2>\n <span class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"Footnotes\">\n Footnotes\n </span>\n </h2>\n <div class=\"section_content\">\n <div class=\"reflist\" style=\"list-style-type: decimal;\">\n <div class=\"mw-references-wrap\">\n <ol class=\"references\">\n <li id=\"cite_note-ftnt_ref1-1\">\n <span class=\"mw-cite-backlink\">\n <a class=\"\" href=\"#cite_ref-ftnt_ref1_1-0\">\n ↑\n </a>\n </span>\n <span class=\"reference-text\">\n Akemi Kikumura,\n <i>\n Through Harsh Winters: The Life of a Japanese Immigrant Woman\n </i>\n (Novato, Calif.: Chandler and Sharp Publishers, 1981); Roberta Uno,\n <i>\n Unbroken Thread: An Anthology of Plays by Asian American Women\n </i>\n (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press,1993), 319.\n </span>\n </li>\n </ol>\n </div>\n </div>\n <!-- \nNewPP limit report\nCached time: 20230613175344\nCache expiry: 86400\nDynamic content: false\nComplications: []\nCPU time usage: 0.018 seconds\nReal time usage: 0.025 seconds\nPreprocessor visited node count: 270/1000000\nPost‐expand include size: 4927/2097152 bytes\nTemplate argument size: 999/2097152 bytes\nHighest expansion depth: 5/40\nExpensive parser function count: 0/100\nUnstrip recursion depth: 0/20\nUnstrip post‐expand size: 604/5000000 bytes\nExtLoops count: 0\n-->\n <!--\nTransclusion expansion time report (%,ms,calls,template)\n100.00% 17.374 1 -total\n 13.42% 2.331 1 Template:RGDatabox-Core\n 13.27% 2.305 1 Template:Reflist\n 8.28% 1.439 1 Template:AuthorByline\n 8.14% 1.414 1 Template:Databox-Articles\n 7.76% 1.348 1 Template:Published\n 7.48% 1.300 1 Template:publish-rgonly\n-->\n <!-- Saved in parser cache with key encycmw:pcache:idhash:3702-0!canonical and timestamp 20230613175344 and revision id 28279\n -->\n </div>\n</div>"
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