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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 [[United States Department of State|State Department]], on the sympathies and loyalties of [[Japanese Americans]] living in [[Hawaii]] and the [[West Coast of the United States]], particularly [[California]]. Munson's report aswas submitted to the White House on NovemberOctober 7, 1941, exactly onetwo monthmonths before the [[Empire of Japan|Japanese]] [[attack on Pearl Harbor]].<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://www.worldcat.org/title/959871081 |title=Asian America: a primary source reader |date=2017 |publisher=Yale University Press |isbn=978-0-300-19544-6 |editor-last=Schlund-Vials |editor-first=Cathy J. |location=New Haven |oclc=959871081 |editor-last2=Wong |editor-first2=Kevin Scott |editor-last3=Chang |editor-first3=Jason Oliver}}</ref>

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