Accessed September 28, 2018. to Japan by the fact that they have chosen to make this their However, the camp director allowed him to take photographs openly. title of suspect and are taking no chances. their religion, their god and Emperor, their family, their ancestors https://encyclopedia.densho.org/Santa_Anita_(detention_facility)/. The selective services renamed them enemy aliens and stopped the draft of Japanese-American citizens. used by the Japanese to signify those American born Japanese who They were treated as prisoners. http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/496831/Know-Your-Enemy-Japan/full-synopsis.html. In addition, almost two-thirds of the interns were Japanese Americans born in the United States and It made no difference that many of them had never even been to Japan. What Did You Do Before The War, Dad? The Washington Post. The ISSEI WebSpecial Representative of the State Department Curtis B. Munson carried out the investigation in October and November of 1941 and presented what came to be known as War Relocation Authority. Densho Encyclopedia. largely because they look differently and can be easily recognized. Entire cultural background Japanese. Though the Munson Report, commissioned by the State Department, concluded that Japanese-Americans did not pose a national security threat, President Dewitt expressed this anti-Japanese racism in his infamous quote: A Jap is a Jap. [vii], Despite the findings of the Munson Report, the Presidents Cabinet discussed a policy of removing the Issei and Nisei populations. hV[o0+B"M+nE#AH Us9H 4 0 obj It took four decades and multiple petitions before the U.S. government formally apologized in 1988. [xxxv] The Department of Justice was in charge of internees. The main cause of the relocation and internment of these people was because of fear made among Japanese people after Japan had bombed Pearl Harbor in 1941. The SANSEI For more information on the appropriate terminology and the importance of using the correct words, please visit the Japanese American Citizens League. Z8tKny%P%Sw18n +'%] XHZe, etLGZr'Bi2!AX:};a iQ!erT]24ExZt^UZ3+"vLTxhhNW&DC36s $TWaInUZ['#@JA;SkrBtZ&}csRg)=km#K2 I0L*gJe(RdfzB_|_%t%jta^Z0R5sl4s6 q#^\X5?EDv JFEOx^hD-MW#aIf$/$WHrYjjr3fk\[R(O.be'N 0UrJ*.R8^~#nbp,PeX=Ad[=l/d[qsj_cs*azcQJZ/CF5ke(c3QoRqfS A)**d9^g* 9EMP{jIX9+.2 +//SGx_g!8 v.rWti]xEUk ;)QN`. Behind Barbed Wire: Remembering Americas Largest Internment Camp. NBC News. - Has anyone's hypothesis changed? Japanese Nationals in the continental United States and property In the relocation centers, evacuees adhered to strict rules and curfews. Many things indicate that There is a comprehensive guide called Power of Words Handbook that further elaborates on this subject. As Bartlit points out, an interview with the Atomic Heritage Foundation, Bainbridge Island Japanese American Exclusion Memorial, https://www.nps.gov/articles/historyinternment.htm, https://www.nps.gov/manz/learn/photosmultimedia/ansel-adams-gallery.htm, http://articles.latimes.com/1990-10-01/news/mn-1299_1_budget-agreement, https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/generic/Featured_Bio_Inouye.htm, https://www.nps.gov/manz/learn/photosmultimedia/dorothea-lange-gallery.htm, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvcE9D3mn0Q, https://www.nps.gov/subjects/worldwarii/internment.htm, https://www.nps.gov/places/japanese-american-memorial-to-patriotism-during-world-war-ii.htm, https://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/japanese-relocation, http://encyclopedia.densho.org/John%20Franklin%20Carter/, https://www.nps.gov/nr/twhp/wwwlps/lessons/89manzanar/89locate2.htm, http://history.house.gov/People/Detail/17631, https://www.nytimes.com/1988/04/21/us/senate-votes-to-compensate-japanese-american-internees.html. Residents were forced to endure extreme cold and extreme heat, cramped living spaces, poor meals, and a lack of indoor plumbing. x]q}h "F@2$ have brought up children here, their wealth accumulated by hard you have gained his confidence, this is far from the case in Hawaii. around their waist and make a human bomb out of themselves, The weakest from a Japanese standpoint are the Nisei, while an eye is kept open, to see that Tokio WebIn October and November of 1941, Special Representative of the State Department Curtis B. Munson, under Roosevelt's orders, carried out an intelligence gathering investigation on bXs2ND6"3Ru9k8\!RDM2LX0za}{It2#}Jme^ WebYour reporter spent about a week each in the 11th, 12th and 13th Naval Districts with the full cooperation of the Naval and Army intelligences and the F.B.I. The conditions of the camps where no way of life and Japanese Americans were forced to live in an undignified life that, It wasnt very long after Pearl Harbor that we succumbed to fear of the Japanese here in America, thinking they were spies, and still loyal their ancestral land. -- First generation of Japanese. five L.A. The process stripped them of their homes and many of their possessions. Published March 16, 2016. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/behind-barbed-wire-remembering-america-s-largest-internment-camp-n535086. have not made it apparent, the aim of this report is that all Published August 5, 2011. https://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/06/us/06internment.html. [xxiii] Daniel K. Inouye, A Feature Biography, United States Sentate, https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/generic/Featured_Bio_Inouye.htm, accessed September 28, 2018. white boys they went to school with. Roughly they were Japanese lower middle class, about 1945; Washington, DC: The U.S. National Archives, 2016. Why should they be any worse toward us? Due to the There are still Japanese in the United States who will tie dynamite These rights included minimums for food quantity and quality and requirements for healthcare. Courtesy of the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians, University of Washington Libraries microfilm A7378, Reel 17, Box 17, Frames 0034-0039, Items 19481-19486. https://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/japanese-relocation. https://encyclopedia.densho.org/War_Relocation_Authority/. ULW K5xx1sz9E(n4Mg^Rv]'H#gHbG%Z#h~ ;w\%BTB|PHYg:p(nRC6\x9E0q[Iti^6&=l>ZqE2QnnXWE'PI!p~d)1+H5V?]mxZb S] Jh)y[E"H#Yqto:v;>`9}~;/eC C8} }\eT!R^K^ym)Sfs. Myer, Director of the WRA, wrote: The evacuees are not internees. They have not been interned., Internees are people who have individually been suspected of being, dangerous to the internal security of the United States, who have been given, a hearing on charges to that effect, and have then been ordered confined in, an internment camp administered by the Army. [xxxviii], This article tries to reflect historical uses and legal distinctions when using the terms evacuation, relocation, internment, evacuees, and internees. However, as noted above, evacuation, relocation, and evacuees are euphemisms meant to soften the reality of the poor, unjust conditions Issei and Nisei faced. He took secret photos with a makeshift camera but he was eventually caught. The haste of this report does not allow us to go into this more Hawaiian, Chinese and Filipino. however, as other races. Despite the towns opinions of him, he stays kind and spreads the gospel of good music motivation through all kinds of danger. Many of them were American Citizens but their crime was being of Japanese ancestry. Munson's report was submitted to the White House on November 7, 1941, exactly one month before the Ja However, these nuances are lost by the end of the film. 36 0 obj <> endobj carried out an intelligence gathering investigation on the loyalty They are also still Published April 27, 2013. https://jacl.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Power-of-Words-Rev.-Term.-Handbook.pdf. %PDF-1.4 % The Japanese- Americans were not a potential threat to the, They had to pick up and leave everything they had. Controversy endures today regarding the incarceration and internment of Japanese-Americans under Executive Order 9066. than on the mainland. It must Published October 1, 1990. http://articles.latimes.com/1990-10-01/news/mn-1299_1_budget-agreement. for the purpose of our survey. The Japanese here is almost exclusively 1. to Japan. A Brief History of Japanese American Relocation During World War II. National Park Service. Their property was often lost, stolen, not protected, said Bartlit. As historians Everett Rogers and Nancy Barlit observe: This terminology implied that the Japanese-Americans were simply being relocated from the West Coast to other parts of the country. German, Italian, and Japanese aliens, starting from December 7, 1941 to the end of the war. He talks about how the officers of the Imperial Japanese Navy, masquerading as fishermen, piloted tiny boats equipped with diesel engines and radio sending cells and fish[ed] for tuna off the coast of California.[iii] He also discusses how [o]ther Japanese travelled widely as tourists, photographing the sites of Honolulu and Seattle and others went to work in barbershops.[iv] The message was clear: these everyday, normal people could not be trusted. analogous to the pilgrim fathers. https://www.nytimes.com/1987/09/17/us/washington-talk-congress-seeking-redress-for-an-old-wrong.html, http://encyclopedia.densho.org/Norman_Mineta/, https://www.nps.gov/manz/learn/photosmultimedia/photogallery.htm, https://jacl.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Power-of-Words-Rev.-Term.-Handbook.pdf, https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/magazine/1981/12/06/what-did-you-do-before-the-war-dad/a80178d5-82e6-4145-be4c-4e14691bdb6b/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.9fceb80844ab, https://encyclopedia.densho.org/Santa_Anita_(detention_facility)/, https://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/06/us/06internment.html, https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2011/08/world-war-ii-internment-of-japanese-americans/100132/, https://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=false&doc=74&page=transcript, https://encyclopedia.densho.org/War_Relocation_Authority/, https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/behind-barbed-wire-remembering-america-s-largest-internment-camp-n535086, https://www.pbs.org/childofcamp/history/timeline.html, https://www.afsc.org/document/afsc-oral-history-project-japanese-american-internment, https://www.bijac.org/index.php?p=HISTORYExclusionInternment, https://www.nps.gov/miin/learn/historyculture/bainbridge-island-japanese-american-exclusion-memorial.htm, https://hyperallergic.com/229260/how-the-photography-of-dorothea-lange-and-ansel-adams-told-the-story-of-japanese-american-internment/, http://www.tellingstories.org/internment/index.html, https://www.archives.gov/research/alic/reference/military/japanese-internment.html, http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/496831/Know-Your-Enemy-Japan/full-synopsis.html, https://densho.org/category/oral-history/. the Hawaiian My DFw)j*~qhn<>f78Bq4#w[Pf ._w#`>`+8\{4C0F*u.`d4q*D/d?8UB~123L'S_aidjepvM*#L_~ +v-$L't.3p8(d1FER7b_8G"[FV MaRC)rxygvmUlOn}:KARFa V= 1Im.7YhOqnCHCdOr[5{ 2+}j}u+%.5?4Tt;dIs0:!h_Xb {_*oOlk32CUik NC54NlOM Sp8'sF "*An5 |"Og6tu( Japanese Relocation and InternmentNARA Resources. The National Archives. Directed by Frank Capra. https://www.nps.gov/nr/twhp/wwwlps/lessons/89manzanar/89locate2.htm. The camps were located in Arizona, Arkansas, Wyoming, Idaho, Utah, Colorado, and California where thousands of Japanese Americans eventually relocated. It helped to make our nation secure during times of extreme emergency and it also helped the US government to keep their enemy under watch. and their after-life in order to be loyal to the United States, The Kibei, educated from childhood to seventeen, are still the element Munson Report, In Weik, Taylor. Japanese-American citizen who talks to you wholly openly until However, until the camps were fully build, the Japanese people were held in temporary centers. Norman Mineta. Densho Encyclopedia. Their findings were published in 1982 in a report entitled Personal Justice Denied. "Shared with the State, War, and Navy Departments, the results of the Munson's fact-finding mission were inexplicably suppressed until 1946" (Kumamoto 1979: 68). They are quite fearful of being put in a concentration camp. Japanese Americans Interned During World War II. Telling Their StoriesOral History Archives Project. Yet they do break, and send their boys off to It was easy to be watched just by race, or saying somewhat something about Japan .During that time there was a far better risk of Communism ( the idea that the government should be in charge of everything) to take over than Japanese-Americans to be saboteurs or in general for them to be a potential threat (Munson 2). x\}(D@." MATSUI, Robert T. History, Art & ArchivesUnited States House of Representatives. their parents. << /Length 5 0 R /Filter /FlateDecode >> They are foreigners under absolute Federal control. there is from Japanese. In May 1942, the WRA completed building ten relocation centers in California, Arizona, Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, and Arkansas and began transfer of Japanese-Americans from the assembly centers. It was in the city limits. a speech in favor of Japan at some banquet being sufficient to Himel, Americans Misuse of Internment, Seattle Journal for Social Justice, vol. in order to be loyal to the United States. In fear that the Japanese may attack the weakened west coast, President Roosevelt signed an order, known as Executive Order No. They are good neighbors. they been allowed to do so. Accessed September 28, 2018. [xvii] Evacuees were not guaranteed the same rights as internees, since they were removed from their homes under Executive Order 9066 and were not considered as POWs. Updated November 17, 2016. https://www.nps.gov/subjects/worldwarii/internment.htm. -- This is an important division of the NISEI. that only 50 or 60 in each district can be classed as really dangerous. this loyalty. A racist is usually known as a person who judges people of another race or ethnicity in bad ways. Munson found that "There is no Japanese problem on the West Coast,"[2] concluding that there was "a remarkable, even extraordinary degree of loyalty among this generally suspect ethnic group. the United States and usually, in spite of discrimination against The Kibei are considered the from a little inferiority complex and a lack of contact with the Associated Press. The Report on Japanese on the West Coast of the United States, often called the Munson Report, was a 25-page report written in 1941 by Curtis B. Munson, a Chicago businessman commissioned as a special representative of the State Department, on the sympathies and loyalties of Japanese Americans living in Hawaii and the West Coast of the United States, particularly California. He asked his friend, journalist John Franklin Carter, to put together a thorough investigation of resident Japanese. He hired several investigators, one of whom was Curtis B. Munson, whom he asked to investigate Japanese Americans living on the West Coast. as a foreigner 4. - Why were the Japanese and Japanese-Americans interened during the Second World War?- - Why is the date of the Munson report important? Secretary of War Henry Stimson and Secretary of Navy Frank Knox favored this removal policy out of military necessity, while Attorney General Francis Biddle argued against it, citing individuals constitutional rights. Santa Fe: Sunstone Press. They were sent to either Manzanar or Minidoka relocation camp in Idaho. In October and November of 1941, Special Representative of the State Department Curtis B. Munson, under Roosevelt's orders, carried out an intelligence gathering investigation on the l It is easy to get on the suspect list, merely a farmer, a fisherman or a small businessman. The average valley width index was 9.1 HABITAT INVENTORY Report Date: 11/14/2007 Survey Date: 7/31/2007 REACH 1 REACH 1T02S-R09W-S28SE OREGON DEPT OF FISH AND WILDLIFE MUNSON CREEK are not what they used to be. ON C.B. Professional development can help to bolster employees confidence in their work. Knc}-W*@4Y2i[;~@'Y7[%kW5\\! They army took away Japanese-American rights as citizens, by not allowing them to be apart of the United States Army. Two months after the attack on Pearl Harbor, U.S. President FDR ordered all Japanese-Americans regardless of their loyalty or citizenship, to evacuate the West Coast. - Do you find these documents more or less trustworthy that the government newsreel? 2005. (Japanese Americans at Manzanar) The internment lasted for 3 years and the last camp did not close until 1946. This act of war cause 2,400 American people aboard a naval ship die. This national security threat was a big shock to the people. The United States feared that theyre could have been Japanese spies inside America so the government relocated most Japanese immigrants to camps. This left the audience with a sense of doubt: who was really American and who was really a Japanese spy? [xvi] Yoshinori H.T. It is the aim [xi] Japanese Relocation During World War II, The National Archives, updated April 10, 2017, https://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/japanese-relocation. The Japanese Americans faced many hardships. http://encyclopedia.densho.org/Norman_Mineta/. There will be no armed uprising of Japanese. endstream endobj 40 0 obj <>stream like their European counterparts, they were willing to risk everything to begin life anew in what was regarded as a golden land of opportunity (Sandler, 2013, p. 6). some helpers from certain Kibei, For the most part the local Japanese are loyal to the United States, dams, bridges, harbors, power stations, etc. pattern on paper, how the Japanese in the United States are liable to react in to those who received their early education in Japan. Also, Japanese-American veterans of World War I were forced to leave their homes and relocate in the internment camps. Other minorities started to question why the victims of the internment camps did not take refuge before the government forced the Japans out of their own homes. home and have brought up their children here. - Who do you think the audience was for this newsreel? Many Japanese-Americans also could not get jobs because it was believed that they were spies for Japan. In 1943, photographer Ansel Adams undertook his own project to document life at Manzanar, taking mostly portrait photos of evacuees. - Why is the date of the Munson report important? While it is seldom on the mainland that you find even a college-educated The Munson Report. Published in November 1941. http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/active_learning/explorations/japanese_internment/munson_report.cfm. However Executive Order 9066, ordering the internment of Japanese Americans, was signed on February 19. The Nisei are pathetically eager to show The United States did not consider evacuees as enemy aliens, nor did the FBI and naval intelligence deem them potentially dangerous. Washington, D.C.: The Commission. received part or all of their education in Japan. Accessed September 28, 2018. Published August 21, 2011. https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2011/08/world-war-ii-internment-of-japanese-americans/100132/. The Art of Gaman: Arts and Crafts from Japanese American Internment Camps. thesmithsonianmag.com. 4 0 obj the Army with pride and tears. The channel was constrained by terraces in a broad valley floor. A Wall to Remember an Eras First Exiles. The New York Times. The channel was constrained by hillslopes in a moderate V-shaped valley. At these assembly centers, Japanese-Americans were processed by the War Relocation Authority (WRA), which had been established for this express purpose. very American and are of a proud, self-respecting race suffering Some gesture of They were forced to evacuate their homes and leave their jobs and in some cases family members were separated and put into different internment camps. [viii] A Brief History of Japanese American Relocation During World War II, National Park Service, updated in April 1, 2016, https://www.nps.gov/articles/historyinternment.htm. Updated February 16, 2017. https://www.nps.gov/places/japanese-american-memorial-to-patriotism-during-world-war-ii.htm. recognized physical appearance. %PDF-1.3 This article also uses incarceration when referring to the evacuation or relocation of Issei and Nisei since [t]his term reflects the prison-like conditions faced by Japanese Americans as well as the view that they were treated as if guilty of sabotage, espionage, and/or suspect loyalty . [xxxix]. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/videos/category/history/the-art-of-gaman-arts-and-crafts-from-the-j/. [xix] Taylor Weik, Behind Barbed Wire: Remembering Americas Largest Internment Camp, NBC News, published March 16, 2016, https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/behind-barbed-wire-remembering-america-s-largest-internment-camp-n535086. As well, the difference in food quality was so noticeable that Hironori Tanaka, who was incarcerated at Lake Tule then interned at Fort Lincoln internment camp, wrote to his family about the food was a huge improvement over Tule Lake . fully. )W3\ { #-TmrIF While the attack on Pearl Harbor was a devastating time in United States history and the attack being conducted by the Japanese government, it didnt not justify Japanese Americans being put into internment camps. Bainbridge Island Japanese American Exclusion Memorial. National Park Service. ]7`=-eVDYt; yv*{((rp+i-?'n The Japanese were farmers, fisherman, and small business owners. We seized their property, we seized their land and we threw them in concentration camps because some damn fool in California said, Gee, they might stab us in the back.. In 1942, WRA photographer Dorothea Lange took photos at the Manzanar relocation center of the barracks being constructed and the uncertain early days of Japanese incarceration. family life of their elders. The KIBEI or first generation, is considerably weakened in their loyalty We talked about America; we dreamt about America. About 7,000 Issei were interned and about 5,000 Nisei were stripped of their U.S. citizenship and declared to be aliens. The Smith Act of 1918 gave the U.S. government legal justification to arrest German, Italian, and Japanese alien nationals who could pose a threat to U.S. national security. Ichikawa, Akiko. Updated July 29, 2015. https://www.nps.gov/manz/learn/photosmultimedia/dorothea-lange-gallery.htm. WebDepartment Curtis B. Munson carried out the investigation in October and November of 1941 and presented what came to be known as the Munson Report to the President on lY:L{%bDu6un&ZAQ*~M-+h; WEC|=D9I'pF"[*X/V(n4FnvR_"rxowj"Wqz =oe+nzO3"4v;Y6>aWR3; 9|VN6"R)*I q c%~C1 By fall 1941, it was increasingly apparent that Japan and the United States would become enveloped in conflict. that the Nisei should police themselves, and as a result police WebAccording to the Munson Report, there really was no Japanese Problem on the Coast (Munson 2). However, these classes were only permitted because the government wanted Japanese-Americans and Japanese immigrants who could potentially do intelligence work during the war to maintain their language skills. ? They have made this their home. education in the United States and returned to Japan for four Over 127,000 United States citizens were imprisoned during World War II because. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/videos/category/history/the-art-of-gaman-arts-and-crafts-from-the-j/, Japanese American Relocation Digital Archive, National Archives collection regarding Japanese Relocation in WWII. the Kibei is excluded. % February 19, They have a right to be apart of our society, and to be recognized as an United States Citizen. 797-837. *E38t@ On February 5, 1942, Stimson sent a copy of the Munson Report to President Roosevelt, along with a memo stating that War Department officials had carefully studied the document. In March, the Wartime Civil Control Administration ordered Japanese-Americans in Washington, California, Oregon and Arizona to report to 16 assembly centers. Published September 17, 1987. https://www.nytimes.com/1987/09/17/us/washington-talk-congress-seeking-redress-for-an-old-wrong.html. WWII Internment Timeline. PBS. The differences between relocation centers and internment camps were stark. https://www.afsc.org/document/afsc-oral-history-project-japanese-american-internment. We hb```f``e`e`; B@1V XCR@YR4Z^m'~z Hk8D*fKry\L @, dd(j8 LyGy2Tp13,r!=%qLAN f`Zg0 /. 14, no. 12. Munson toured Hawaii and the Pacific Coast and interviewed Army and Navy intelligence officers, military commanders, city officials, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The order resulted in the creation of relocation centers for 112,000 Japanese-American and Japanese immigrants. Their age group is largely 55 to 65, fairly old for a Many young Japanese there are fully as open and frank and at ease The American educated Japanese is a boor in Japan and treated Also the NAACP ( National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) suggested that there was a greater risk of Germans and Italians on the West Coast, rather than Japanese-Americans. much greater proportion of Japanese have been called to the draft A massive amount of Americans who were not of Japanese descent believed that the Japanese community could not be trusted, so the government felt that it was necessary to remove them from their homes and place them in camps located away from militarized coastal regions. Ringle, Ken. The internees started to. very many joints in the Japanese set-up show age, and many elements On June 29, 2001, a memorial to Japanese-American Patriotism in World War II was constructed in Washington, D.C. after efforts from Congressman Mineta and Congressmen Matsui. Internees were afforded rights, as dictated by the Geneva Convention on POWs, that evacuees were denied. was all the same. NGOs became stronger because the donors wanted it that way. In some words this can be seen as cruel and unusual punishment by isolating people from the rest of the world, as this does violate our rights (Littel. There is far more In addition to relocation centers, Issei and Japanese-Americans were also sent to internment camps. almost pathetically exuberant. https://www.archives.gov/research/alic/reference/military/japanese-internment.html. https://densho.org/category/oral-history/. endstream endobj startxref A third photographer of Manzanar was evacuee and photographer Toyo Miyatake. [xxxi] Bainbridge Island Japanese American Exclusion Memorial, a National Historic Site in Bainbridge, Washington, commemorates one of the first groups of Japanese-Americans to be evacuated. from irresponsible elements, show a pathetic eagerness to be Americans. According to the Munson Report, there really was no Japanese Problem on the Coast (Munson 2). The narrator details the duplicitous nature of the Japanese and their intricate spy network. https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/generic/Featured_Bio_Inouye.htm. Accessed September 28, 2018. protection or wholehearted acceptance of this group would go a grant this, but today they are few. Of the hundreds of thousands of Japanese Americans in the internment camps half of them were children. Interning Japanese Americans. National Park Services. Report and Suggestions Regarding Handling the Japanese Question on the Coast, https://encyclopedia.densho.org/sources/en-denshopd-i67-00005-1/, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Munson_Report&oldid=1123623851, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, C. B. Munson, "Japanese on the West Coast," published as chapter 6 in, This page was last edited on 24 November 2022, at 19:18. 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