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    "url_title": "Yuki Shimoda",
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    "title": "Yuki Shimoda",
    "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      Yuki Shimoda\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      August 10 1921\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      May 21 1981\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      Sacramento\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=\"/Nisei/\" title=\"Nisei\">\n        Nisei\n       </a>\n      </p>\n     </td>\n    </tr>\n    <tr>\n     <td colspan=\"2\" style=\"text-align:left;\">\n      <a class=\"external text offsite\" href=\"http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0793715\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n       More information...\n      </a>\n     </td>\n    </tr>\n   </tbody>\n  </table>\n </div>\n <div id=\"databox-People\" style=\"display:none;\">\n  <p>\n   FirstName:Yuki;\nLastName:Shimoda;\nDisplayName:Yuki Shimoda;\nBirthDate:1921-08-10;\nDeathDate:1981-05-21;\nBirthLocation:Sacramento;\nGender:Male;\nEthnicity:JA;\nGenerationIdentifier:Nisei;\nNationality:;\nExternalResourceLink:\n   <a class=\"external free offsite\" href=\"http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0793715\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n    http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0793715\n   </a>\n   ;\nPrimaryGeography:;\nReligion:;\n  </p>\n </div>\n <div class=\"floatright\">\n </div>\n <p>\n  Pioneering\n  <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"/Nisei/\" title=\"Nisei\">\n   Nisei\n  </a>\n  actor. Yuki Shimoda (1921–81) was one of the first Japanese American actors to attain mainstream success after World War II both on Broadway and in film and television roles. Born and raised in Sacramento, California, he and his family were incarcerated at\n  <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"/Tule_Lake/\" title=\"Tule Lake\">\n   Tule Lake\n  </a>\n  during the war. Shimoda left camp during the\n  <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"/Resettlement/\" title=\"Resettlement\">\n   resettlement\n  </a>\n  period, choosing Chicago, where he attended Northwestern University, graduating with an accounting degree. Interested in acting since he was a child, he decided to move to New York to pursue his dream and worked on Broadway first in\n  <i>\n   Teahouse of the August Moon\n  </i>\n  , then in a major role in\n  <i>\n   Auntie Mame\n  </i>\n  from 1956 to 1958. He moved to Los Angeles for the movie version of the latter and remained there, working regularly in movies and television and co-starring in the TV series\n  <i>\n   Johnny Midnight\n  </i>\n  in 1960. He was active in the Asian American entertainment community is Los Angeles and starred in two landmark films depicting the Japanese American experience,\n  <i>\n   <a class=\"external text offsite\" href=\"https://resourceguide.densho.org/Hito%20Hata:%20Raise%20the%20Banner%20(film)/\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n    Hito Hata: Raise the Banner\n   </a>\n  </i>\n  (1980), as well as a 1977 episode of the\n  <i>\n   Wonder Woman\n  </i>\n  TV show that had a Japanese American incarceration subplot. He died of cancer in Los Angles in 1981. He was the subject of the biographical short film\n  <i>\n   Yuki Shimoda: Asian American Actor\n  </i>\n  (1985).\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 <!-- \nNewPP limit report\nCached time: 20240418160812\nCache expiry: 86400\nDynamic content: false\nComplications: []\nCPU time usage: 0.011 seconds\nReal time usage: 0.016 seconds\nPreprocessor visited node count: 115/1000000\nPost‐expand include size: 2145/2097152 bytes\nTemplate argument size: 326/2097152 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%    9.752      1 -total\n 71.40%    6.963      1 Template:Databox-People\n 13.97%    1.362      1 Template:Published\n 13.76%    1.342      1 Template:AuthorByline\n-->\n <!-- Saved in parser cache with key encycmw:pcache:idhash:2414-0!canonical and timestamp 20240418160812 and revision id 35949\n -->\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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