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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 as submitted to the White House on November 7, 1941, exactly one month before the [[Empire of Japan|Japanese]] [[attack on Pearl Harbor]].
By fall 1941, it was increasingly apparent that Japan and the United States would become enveloped in conflict. Munson was assigned the task of gauging the loyalty of Japanese Americans, many of whom lived military bases and important [[manufacturing]] facilities. Munson toured Hawaii and the [[Pacific Coast]] and interviewed [[United States Army|Army]] and [[United States Navy|Navy]] [[intelligence officer]]s, military commanders, city officials, and the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation]]. Munson found that "There is no Japanese problem on the West Coast," concluding that there was "a remarkable, even extraordinary degree of loyalty among this generally suspect [[ethnic group]]." The Munson Report was circulated to several [[United States Cabinet|Cabinet]] officials, including [[United States Secretary of War|Secretary of War]] [[Henry L. Stimson]], [[United States Secretary of the Navy|Secretary of the Navy]] [[Frank Knox]], [[United States Attorney General|Attorney General]] [[Francis Biddle]], and [[United States Secretary of State|Secretary of State]] [[Cordell Hull]]. Despite this, [[Executive Order 9066]], ordering the [[Japanese American internment |internment of Japanese Americans]], was signed in 1942.<ref>Nancy R. Bartlit and Everett M. Rogers, ''Silent Voices of World War II: When Sons of the Land of Enchantment Met Sons of the Land of the Rising Son'' (2005), p. 143-133.</ref>
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