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    "url_title": "Harry Sotaro Kawabe",
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    "title": "Harry Sotaro Kawabe",
    "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      Harry Sotaro Kawabe\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      June 10 1890\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      November 1 1969\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:Harry Sotaro;\nLastName:Kawabe;\nDisplayName:Harry Sotaro Kawabe;\nBirthDate:1890-06-10;\nDeathDate:1969-11;\nBirthLocation:;\nGender:Male;\nEthnicity:JA;\nGenerationIdentifier:Issei;\nNationality:;\nExternalResourceLink:;\nPrimaryGeography:Alaska;\nReligion:;\n  </p>\n </div>\n <p>\n  Pioneering\n  <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"/Issei/\" title=\"Issei\">\n   Issei\n  </a>\n  businessman in Alaska. Born in Maibara, Japan, Harry Sotaro Kawabe (1890–1969) migrated to Seattle as a teenager in 1905, learning English and eventually operating a hotel and café. He journeyed to Alaska in 1909, initially as a cook, eventually settling in Seward where he built a thriving laundry business that served the railroad and steamship industries. This led to string of other businesses including restaurants, a gift shop, hardware store, and real estate ventures that made him one of the region's most prominent figures.\n </p>\n <p>\n  With the outbreak of World War II, Kawabe was among the Japanese American community leaders arrested and detained, to be held eventually at an internment camp at\n  <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"/Fort_Richardson_(detention_facility)/\" title=\"Fort Richardson (detention facility)\">\n   Fort Richardson\n  </a>\n  , Alaska. After the war, he decided against returning to Alaska, settling in Seattle where he worked in real estate and established an import/export business. He returned to Seward in 1965 to form the Japanese and American Development Company of Alaska, an attempt to develop natural resources in Alaska for Japanese consumption.\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    Inouye, Ronald K. \"Harry Sotaro Kawabe: Issei Businessman of Seward and Seattle.\"\n    <i>\n     Alaska History\n    </i>\n    5 (Spring 1990): 35–43.\n   </p>\n   <p>\n    Ringsmuth, Katherine. \"\n    <a class=\"external text offsite\" href=\"http://www.nps.gov/kefj/parknews/harry-kawabe.htm\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n     Service Unexcelled: A Tribute to Harry Kawabe\n    </a>\n    .\" Kenai Fjords National Park website.\n   </p>\n   <p>\n    Russell, Chas. \"Alaska—His Labor of Love.\"\n    <i>\n     Rafu Shimpo\n    </i>\n    , December 18, 1967, II-13, 22.\n   </p>\n   <!-- \nNewPP limit report\nCached time: 20240829172631\nCache expiry: 86400\nDynamic content: false\nComplications: []\nCPU time usage: 0.007 seconds\nReal time usage: 0.010 seconds\nPreprocessor visited node count: 118/1000000\nPost‐expand include size: 1669/2097152 bytes\nTemplate argument size: 209/2097152 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%    5.397      1 -total\n 46.80%    2.526      1 Template:Databox-People\n 25.90%    1.398      1 Template:Published\n 25.64%    1.384      1 Template:AuthorByline\n-->\n   <!-- Saved in parser cache with key encycmw:pcache:idhash:2505-0!canonical and timestamp 20240829172631 and revision id 36939\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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