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    "url_title": "Kiyoshi Hirasaki",
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    "title": "Kiyoshi Hirasaki",
    "body": "<div class=\"mw-parser-output\">\n <div id=\"databox-PeopleDisplay\">\n  <table class=\"infobox\" width=\"200px;\">\n   <tbody>\n    <tr>\n     <th scope=\"row\" style=\"text-align:left;\">\n      Name\n     </th>\n     <td style=\"text-align:left;\">\n      Kiyoshi Hirasaki\n     </td>\n    </tr>\n    <tr>\n     <th scope=\"row\" style=\"text-align:left;\">\n      Born\n     </th>\n     <td style=\"text-align:left;\">\n      March 1 1900\n     </td>\n    </tr>\n    <tr>\n     <th scope=\"row\" style=\"text-align:left;\">\n      Died\n     </th>\n     <td style=\"text-align:left;\">\n      December 24 1963\n     </td>\n    </tr>\n    <tr>\n     <th scope=\"row\" style=\"text-align:left;\">\n      Birth Location\n     </th>\n     <td style=\"text-align:left;\">\n      Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan\n     </td>\n    </tr>\n    <tr>\n     <th scope=\"row\" style=\"text-align:left;\">\n      Generational Identifier\n     </th>\n     <td style=\"text-align:left;\">\n      <p>\n       <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"/Issei/\" title=\"Issei\">\n        Issei\n       </a>\n      </p>\n     </td>\n    </tr>\n   </tbody>\n  </table>\n </div>\n <div id=\"databox-People\" style=\"display:none;\">\n  <p>\n   FirstName:Kiyoshi;\nLastName:Hirasaki;\nDisplayName:Kiyoshi Hirasaki;\nBirthDate:1900-03-01;\nDeathDate:1963-12-24;\nBirthLocation:Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan;\nGender:Male;\nEthnicity:JA;\nGenerationIdentifier:Issei;\nNationality:;\nExternalResourceLink:;\nPrimaryGeography:Gilroy, California;\nReligion:Buddhist;\n  </p>\n </div>\n <div class=\"floatright\">\n </div>\n <div class=\"floatright\">\n </div>\n <div class=\"floatright\">\n </div>\n <p>\n  Farmer and community leader.\n  <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"/Issei/\" title=\"Issei\">\n   Issei\n  </a>\n  farmer Kiyoshi Hirasaki became known as the \"Garlic King\" of Gilroy just before World War II, when he became the country's biggest garlic grower. Born to a farming family in Kumamoto Prefecture, he came to California to join his father and older brother at age fourteen. After going to school and working as a laborer—having come to the U.S. at a relatively young age, he learned to speak English well—he started to work for the Kimberlin Seed Company in Milpitas. Marrying at age 21, he opened his own seed shop in San Jose, living with his family in the back of the store. In 1932, he borrowed money to purchase a 400-acre ranch in Gilroy. Struggling to develop the land initially, his ranch grew through to 1,600 acres before the war, growing a variety of crops and seeds. But he became best known for garlic, which grew well in the relatively dry climate of Gilroy. He also became known for the showpiece Japanese style house he had built by the well-known home builders Shinzaburo and Gentaro Nishiura that incorporated parts of the Japanese pavilion the pair had built for the 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition on Treasure Island. The house was completed in October of 1941.\n </p>\n <p>\n  After the attack on Pearl Harbor, Hirasaki was arrested by the FBI and sent first to the nearby\n  <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"/Sharp_Park_(detention_facility)/\" title=\"Sharp Park (detention facility)\">\n   Sharp Park\n  </a>\n  internment camp, then to\n  <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"/Fort_Lincoln_(Bismarck)_(detention_facility)/\" title=\"Fort Lincoln (Bismarck) (detention facility)\">\n   Fort Lincoln\n  </a>\n  in Bismarck, North Dakota. In the meantime, his family, which now included eight children,\n  <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"/Voluntary_evacuation/\" title=\"Voluntary evacuation\">\n   resettled \"voluntarily\"\n  </a>\n  in Grand Junction, Colorado. Hirasaki was released in Sept. 1942 and rejoined his family in Grand Junction. After the war, he and his family moved back to their Gilroy ranch, which had been competently managed by a white friend who had paid off the mortgage with rental income. He went back to farming—his farm grew to 1,200 acres by the late 1940s—and also played a larger role in the community through activity with the Buddhist Churches of America and through being one of the founders and president of the\n  <i>\n   Hokubei Mainichi\n  </i>\n  newspaper. He also began a number of agricultural ventures in  Japan and shuttled back and forth between Japan and Gilroy in the last years of his life. He died back in Gilroy on Christmas Eve, 1963.\n </p>\n <div id=\"authorByline\">\n  <b>\n   Authored by\n   <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"/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 <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    Hirasaki, Manabi, with Naomi Hirahara.\n    <i>\n     A Taste for Strawberries: The Independent Journey of Nisei Farmer Manabi Hirasaki\n    </i>\n    . Los Angeles: Japanese American National Museum, 2003.\n   </p>\n   <p>\n    \"How a $1,000,000 Farm Operates.\"\n    <i>\n     Scene\n    </i>\n    2.10 (February 1951): 30–34.\n   </p>\n   <p>\n    Japanese American Curriculum Project.\n    <a class=\"external text offsite\" href=\"https://archive.org/details/japaneseamerican00japa_1\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n     <i>\n      Japanese American Journey: The Story of a People\n     </i>\n     .\n    </a>\n    San Mateo, Calif.: Japanese American Curriculum Project, 1985.\n   </p>\n   <!-- \nNewPP limit report\nCached time: 20230521153456\nCache expiry: 86400\nDynamic content: false\nComplications: []\nCPU time usage: 0.014 seconds\nReal time usage: 0.019 seconds\nPreprocessor visited node count: 126/1000000\nPost‐expand include size: 1981/2097152 bytes\nTemplate argument size: 310/2097152 bytes\nHighest expansion depth: 6/40\nExpensive parser function count: 0/100\nUnstrip recursion depth: 0/20\nUnstrip post‐expand size: 0/5000000 bytes\nExtLoops count: 0\n-->\n   <!--\nTransclusion expansion time report (%,ms,calls,template)\n100.00%    9.450      1 -total\n 70.78%    6.689      1 Template:Databox-People\n 14.14%    1.336      1 Template:Published\n 14.12%    1.334      1 Template:AuthorByline\n-->\n   <!-- Saved in parser cache with key encycmw:pcache:idhash:2488-0!canonical and timestamp 20230521153456 and revision id 30505\n -->\n  </div>\n </div>\n</div>\n<div class=\"toplink\">\n <a href=\"#top\">\n  <i class=\"icon-chevron-up\">\n  </i>\n  Top\n </a>\n</div>",
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