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"body": "<div class=\"mw-parser-output\">\n <div class=\"rgonly\">\n <!--\"rgdatabox-CoreDisplay\" removed-->\n <div id=\"rgdatabox-Core\" style=\"display:none;\">\n <p>\n RGMediaType:short stories;\nTitle:Las Vegas Charley;\nCreators:Hisaye Yamamoto;\nInterestLevel:Grades 9-12; Adult;\nReadingLevel:;\nGuidedReadingLevel:;\nLexile:;\nTheme:Disillusionment and dreams; Temptation and destruction; Vulnerability of the meek; Working class struggles;\nGenre:Fiction;\nPoV:told from perspective of Issei man;\nRelatedEvents:;\nAvailability:Widely available;\nFreeWebVersion:No;\nPrimarySecondary:;\nHasTeachingAids:No;\nWarnings:;\nDenshoTopic:Immigration and citizenship [1]; Agriculture-Farming [345]; Small business-Restaurants [374]; Identity and values-Issei [43];\nGeography:Santa Maria, California; Orange County, California; Los Angeles, California; Las Vegas, Nevada;\nChronology:1880s to 1950s;\nFacility:;\n </p>\n </div>\n </div>\n <div id=\"databox-Articles\" style=\"display:none;\">\n <p>\n Author:Hisaye Yamamoto;\nTitle:Las Vegas Charley;\nPubName:;\nPubDate:1961;\nPubDetails:;\nDOI:;\nWebsite:;\n </p>\n </div>\n <p>\n Short story by\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/Hisaye_Yamamoto\" title=\"Hisaye Yamamoto\">\n Hisaye Yamamoto\n </a>\n about an\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/Issei\" title=\"Issei\">\n Issei\n </a>\n man named Kazuyuki Matsumoto, who works as a dishwasher at a Las Vegas restaurant while gambling away his wages. In flashback, we learn of his life story: boyhood in Kumamoto prefecture, then migration to the U.S. where he becomes a successful farmer in Santa Maria, California, and is soon joined by a\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/Picture_brides\" title=\"Picture brides\">\n \"picture bride\"\n </a>\n wife, Haru and two sons. But Haru's death in childbirth after the birth of their second son changes Kazuyuki's life decisively. He sends the two boys to live with his mother in Japan and becomes a migrant laborer. At first, he sends regular remittances home, but he soon picks up a gambling habit and the payments gradually come to an end. He later brings his Kibei sons back to the U.S., where they start a new farming venture in Orange County, California, this one less successful. Then comes World War II and the three end up in an Arizona concentration camp in Arizona. While Kazuyuki works as a mess hall chef and comes to be vaguely satisfied with his life in camp, his ambitious older son Isamu volunteers for the army, only to die in combat in Italy. His second son Noriyuki initially decides to return to Japan on an exchange ship, but changes his mind when he falls in love with a\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/Nisei\" title=\"Nisei\">\n Nisei\n </a>\n girl he had met in camp. He ends up as a Japanese instructor in the army and the couple marry and settle in Los Angeles, while Kazuyuki gravitates to Las Vegas, where his co-workers dub him \"Charley.\" Health problems bring him to L.A. for care, where he stays with his son's family, though he clashes with his daughter-in-law. Despite his promises, he can never give up his gambling habit.\n </p>\n <p>\n \"Las Vegas Charley\" was first published in 1961 in\n <i>\n Arizona Quarterly\n </i>\n and has appeared in several anthologies, including the early Asian American literary collection\n <i>\n Asian-American Heritage: An Anthology of Prose and Poetry\n </i>\n in 1974 and in Yamamoto's 1988 collection of short stories,\n <i>\n Seventeen Syllables and Other Stories\n </i>\n . In a 1987 interview, Yamamoto told Charles L. Crow that the story is based in part on her own father, who also worked as a dishwasher in a Chinese restaurant after the war before getting sick.\n <sup class=\"reference\" id=\"cite_ref-ftnt_ref1_1-0\">\n <a class=\"\" href=\"#cite_note-ftnt_ref1-1\">\n [1]\n </a>\n </sup>\n </p>\n <div id=\"authorByline\">\n <b>\n Authored by\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/Brian_Niiya\" title=\"Brian Niiya\">\n Brian Niiya\n </a>\n , Densho\n </b>\n </div>\n <div id=\"citationAuthor\" style=\"display:none;\">\n Niiya, Brian\n </div>\n <p>\n Might also like \"\n <a class=\"encyc rg\" href=\"/wiki/Gambling Den (short story)/\" title=\"Gambling Den (short story)\">\n Gambling Den\n </a>\n \" by Akemi Kikumura; \"\n <a class=\"encyc rg\" href=\"/wiki/Otoko (short story)/\" title=\"Otoko (short story)\">\n Otoko\n </a>\n \" by Wakako Yamauchi; \"\n <a class=\"encyc rg\" href=\"/wiki/Pleasure of Plain Rice (short story)/\" title=\"Pleasure of Plain Rice (short story)\">\n Pleasure of Plain Rice\n </a>\n \" by Hisaye Yamamoto\n </p>\n <div class=\"section\" id=\"Footnote\">\n <h2>\n <span class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"Footnote\">\n Footnote\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 Charles L. Crow, \"A MELUS Interview: Hisaye Yamamoto,\"\n <i>\n MELUS\n </i>\n 14.1 (Spring 1987): 73-84.\n </span>\n </li>\n </ol>\n </div>\n </div>\n <!-- \nNewPP limit report\nCached time: 20230521153526\nCache expiry: 86400\nDynamic content: false\nComplications: []\nCPU time usage: 0.018 seconds\nReal time usage: 0.025 seconds\nPreprocessor visited node count: 271/1000000\nPost‐expand include size: 5359/2097152 bytes\nTemplate argument size: 1461/2097152 bytes\nHighest expansion depth: 5/40\nExpensive parser function count: 0/100\nUnstrip recursion depth: 0/20\nUnstrip post‐expand size: 420/5000000 bytes\nExtLoops count: 0\n-->\n <!--\nTransclusion expansion time report (%,ms,calls,template)\n100.00% 17.047 1 -total\n 13.32% 2.271 1 Template:RGDatabox-Core\n 12.79% 2.180 1 Template:Reflist\n 7.97% 1.358 1 Template:Databox-Articles\n 7.81% 1.332 1 Template:AuthorByline\n 7.78% 1.327 1 Template:Published\n 7.48% 1.275 1 Template:publish-rgonly\n-->\n <!-- Saved in parser cache with key encycmw:pcache:idhash:3532-0!canonical and timestamp 20230521153526 and revision id 31079\n -->\n </div>\n </div>\n</div>\n",
"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 Yamamoto, Hisaye. \"Las Vegas Charley.\"\n <i>\n Arizona Quarterly\n </i>\n 17 (1961): 303–22. Reprinted in\n <i>\n Asian-American Heritage: An Anthology of Prose and Poetry\n </i>\n , ed. David Happell Hsin-Fu Wand (New York: Pocket Books, 1974): 97–121;\n <i>\n The Third Woman: Minority Women Writers of the United States\n </i>\n , ed. Dexter Fisher (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1980): 470–84; Hisaye Yamamoto.\n <a class=\"external text offsite\" href=\"https://archive.org/details/seventeensyllabl00yama\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n <i>\n Seventeen Syllables and Other Stories\n </i>\n </a>\n , introduction by King-Kok Cheung (Latham, N.Y.: Kitchen Table Women of Color Press 1988): 70–85;\n <i>\n Asian American Literature: A Brief Introduction and Anthology\n </i>\n , edited by Shawn Wong (New York: HarperCollins, 1996).\n </p>\n <p>\n McDonald, Dorothy Ritsuko, and Katharine Newman. \"Relocation and Dislocation: The Writings of Hisaye Yamamoto and Wakako Yamauchi.\"\n <i>\n MELUS\n </i>\n 7.3 (Fall 1980): 116-25.\n </p>\n </div>\n</div>"
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