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. 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. Cite this primary be no armed uprising of Japanese, only 50 or 60 in each district can be classed as really SET-UP SHOWS SIGNS OF THE HONORABLE PASSAGE OF TIME. Sadly, even our president Roosevelt succumbed to this, in which he signed executive order 9066 which authorized the relocation of all Japanese citizens here in America to internment camps where they would spend 4 years of their life, and lose their homes, valuables, lifes savings,businesses, and much more. people. There are still Japanese in the United States who will tie dynamite -- This is an important division of the NISEI. The living conditions at the camps were inadequate at best. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, many Americans were suspicious of first-generation Japanese immigrants and Japanese-Americans and accused them of espionage. 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. 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. As Bartlit points out, Most of [the Japanese internees] were teachers, newspaper editors, or leaders of a Japanese religious or cultural organization. Unlike relocation centers, internment camps fell under the jurisdiction of the Department of Justice. http://www.tellingstories.org/internment/index.html. Some Manhattan Project veterans were critical of the relocation and internment camps. We all had one wish to be in America (Sandler, 2013, p. 6). . 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. Copyright 2022 by the Atomic Heritage Foundation. wholly unguarded everywhere, I cannot unqualifiedly state [vi] Ken Ringle, What Did You Do Before The War, Dad? The Washington Post, published December 6, 1981, 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. 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.. around their waist and make a human bomb out of themselves. - Has anyone's hypothesis changed? December 7, 1941 - Japan bombs U.S. ships and planes at the Pearl Harbor military base in Hawaii. At four main internment camps, these individuals awaited hearings. title of suspect and are taking no chances. Japanese does not suffer from the same inferiority complex or By fall 1941, it was increasingly apparent that Japan and the United States would become enveloped in conflict. are excerpts from that report. dangerous, they are afraid of and do not trust the Nisei, They may get In 1943, photographer Ansel Adams undertook his own project to document life at Manzanar, taking mostly portrait photos of evacuees. Many reasons have been thrown about as to why the U.S. is still in the midst of a historic labor shortage, including a decline in fertility rates, . MATSUI, Robert T. History, Art & ArchivesUnited States House of Representatives. are not what they used to be. near anything to blow up if it is guarded. that there is no danger from the Japanese living in the United States. received part or all of their education in Japan. bXs2ND6"3Ru9k8\!RDM2LX0za}{It2#}Jme^ Why should they be any worse toward us? case of war with Japan. All rights reserved. It was an early sunday morning on December 7, 1941 when the Japanese attacked a naval base in Hawaii known as Pearl Harbor (DeWitt 1). [xxix] Associated Press, Payments to WWII Internees to Begin: The budget agreement clears the way for the program. to their early American education come back with added loyalty labor is here, and many would have become Amercian citizens had some helpers from certain Kibei, For the most part the local Japanese are loyal to the United States, dams, bridges, harbors, power stations, etc. https://www.nps.gov/miin/learn/historyculture/bainbridge-island-japanese-american-exclusion-memorial.htm. Most of the Japanese-Americans could not vote or take part in any election. 59 0 obj <>/Filter/FlateDecode/ID[<6C32E07C8E44454AB35E432E456BEB86>]/Index[36 37]/Info 35 0 R/Length 109/Prev 174830/Root 37 0 R/Size 73/Type/XRef/W[1 3 1]>>stream It was easy to be put on the suspect list due to physical appearance, in -- Second generation who have received their whole education in "@ C`BF IJBM@e$AF@!w>%@xc/:/jt1F jF&mq"8M2y? with a white as white boys are. 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. stream It is easy to get on the suspect list, merely Their findings were published in 1982 in a report entitled Personal Justice Denied. Munson's "Report and Suggestions Regarding Handling the Japanese Question on the Coast," Dec. 20, 1941. 0 %%EOF In the relocation centers, evacuees adhered to strict rules and curfews. to those who received their early education in Japan. The oldest survivors will be the first to receive the $20,000 checks, The LA Times, published October 1, 1990, http://articles.latimes.com/1990-10-01/news/mn-1299_1_budget-agreement. http://history.house.gov/People/Detail/17631. Accessed September 28, 2018. http://encyclopedia.densho.org/Norman_Mineta/. According to the Munson Report, there really was no Japanese Problem on the Coast (Munson 2). << /Length 5 0 R /Filter /FlateDecode >> for the purpose of our survey. 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. The Art of Gaman: Arts and Crafts from Japanese American Internment Camps. thesmithsonianmag.com. to plants or intricate machinery. under absolute Federal control. https://www.nps.gov/nr/twhp/wwwlps/lessons/89manzanar/89locate2.htm. there has been absolutely no bad feeling between the Japanese needs is a trip to Japan to make a loyal American out of him. WebNovember 1941 - Munson Report released (Document B). The internees started to. [xxxiii] Locating the SiteMap 2: War Relocation Centers in the United States, National Park Services, https://www.nps.gov/nr/twhp/wwwlps/lessons/89manzanar/89locate2.htm, accessed September 28, 2018. There is no Japanese `problem' on the Coast. [xv] Everett M. Rogers and Nancy R. Bartlit, Silent Voices of World War II: When sons of the Land of Enchantment met sons of the Land of the Rising Sun (Santa Fe: Sunstone Press, 2005), 155. feel the same mistrust of the whites that he does on the mainland. Such fear lead to innocent Japanese Americans to live in a way that could be considered inhuman. This euphemistic label, however, would not call for barbed wire, armed guards, and searchlights. They moved them to camps that they would keep them in and provide decent living conditions. The Japanese are hampered as saboteurs because of their easily hb```f``e`e`; B@1V XCR@YR4Z^m'~z Hk8D*fKry\L @, dd(j8 LyGy2Tp13,r!=%qLAN f`Zg0 /. as a foreigner 4. Many young Japanese there are fully as open and frank and at ease (Lessons Learned: Japanese Internment During WW2). [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. In 2012, actor George Takei, who was incarcerated at Tule Lake, wrote and starred in Allegiance, a Broadway musical about life at the incarceration camps. WebDocument B: The Munson Report Reasons: The government didn't want to take any chances, which was unreasonable because the Japanese American occupations, such This suspicion is reflected in one of the most well-known war propaganda films, Know Your EnemyJapan (1945). The channel was constrained by hillslopes in a moderate V-shaped valley. Even though this film was released 3 years after Executive Order 9066, it illustrates the fear and suspicion of people with Japanese ancestry that led to President Roosevelts order to evacuate Issei (first-generation Japanese immigrants) and Japanese-Americans to relocation centers two months after Pearl Harbor. 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). The United States feared that theyre could have been Japanese spies inside America so the government relocated most Japanese immigrants to camps. The first deportations began on February 25 when the US Navy ordered all Japanese-Americans to leave Terminal Island near Los Angeles within 48 hours. [xx] Photo Gallery, National Park Service, updated April 28, 2016, https://www.nps.gov/manz/learn/photosmultimedia/photogallery.htm. %PDF-1.4 % WWII Internment Timeline. PBS. https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/generic/Featured_Bio_Inouye.htm. and to work alongside them. 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. However Executive Order 9066, ordering the internment of Japanese Americans, was signed on February 19. [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. ]7`=-eVDYt; yv*{((rp+i-?'n He also stated that [t]here will undoubtedly be some sabotage financed by Japan but they would be executed largely by imported agents. Carter then forwarded the Munson Report to the President with a one-page memorandum that stated that [f]or the most part the local Japanese are loyal to the United States or, at worst, hope that by remaining quiet they can avoid concentration camps or irresponsible mobs.[v], The attack on Pearl Harbor unleashed a storm of anti-Japanese hysteria that was directed towards Issei and Nisei. of the KIBEI they should be again divided into two classes, i.e. What Did You Do Before The War, Dad? The Washington Post. Personal justice denied: report of the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians. The Issei have to break with their religion, their god [viii], President Roosevelt ultimately sided with Secretaries Stimson and Knox and issued Executive Order 9066 on February 19, 1942. do. 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. that the Nisei should police themselves, and as a result police State Department Curtis B. Munson, under Roosevelt's orders, 4 0 obj Greater confidence can, in turn, translate into higher overall job satisfaction, employee performance, productivity, and overall morale. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/videos/category/history/the-art-of-gaman-arts-and-crafts-from-the-j/. very American and are of a proud, self-respecting race suffering home and have brought up their children here. They are quite fearful of being put in a concentration camp. and Emperor, their family, their ancestors and their after-life According to the United States government the Japanese Americans placement in internment camps were justified on national security grounds (Brooks), but the truth is Japanese Americans were placed in internment camps because of fear and racial prejudice. 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. The document state that if there is an uprising amongst the Japanese it will likely be from imported agents. [xxviii] IRVIN MOLOTSKY and SPECIAL TO THE NEW YORK TIMES, Senate Votes to Compensate Japanese-American Internees, The New York Times, published April 21, 1988. !AwO2Bp+|pj4}tn258q)Qg&==x4Lf&,No"NN,I'8T0"=Y$|Ad'OBV{e~Ks /%?h>6]RWg`7q&jUaGC[C6jnns3ndiI33 However, these nuances are lost by the end of the film. [i] Know Your EnemyJapan, directed by Frank Capra (1945; Washington, DC: The U.S. National Archives, 2016), Youtube, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvcE9D3mn0Q. (Howard 3). These 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 . of individual responsibility to deity, the Christian Families were even broken up if the government deemed a family member to be an enemy alien, thus sending him or her to an internment camp. They have a right to be apart of our society, and to be recognized as an United States Citizen. stream [xvi]. Munson Report, In While it may seem like semantics, there are legal and historical distinctions between evacuation and internment. Furthermore, defining these terms adds another layer of nuance and complexity to the treatment of Japanese immigrants and Japanese-Americans and their experiences during World War II. Approximately 120,000 people were sent to the camps and the event lasted through the years 1942 and 1945. while an eye is kept open, to see that Tokio does not get its (1) A date night is an opportunity to communicate, and this communication may help couples deepen their understanding of one another and the relationship.. Many things indicate that endstream endobj 40 0 obj <>stream World War II: Internment of Japanese Americans. The Atlantic. )W3\ { #-TmrIF owned and operated by them within the country be immediately placed In March, the Wartime Civil Control Administration ordered Japanese-Americans in Washington, California, Oregon and Arizona to report to 16 assembly centers. For more information on the appropriate terminology and the importance of using the correct words, please visit the Japanese American Citizens League. ON C.B. , We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity. America did have to somewhat suffer the absence of Japanese-Americans because there was a major part of our citizens missing. The American educated Japanese is a boor in Japan and treated Of the hundreds of thousands of Japanese Americans in the internment camps half of them were children. It was easy to be put on the suspect list due to physical appearance, in each naval district there were at least 250 to about 300 Japanese-Americans under surveillance due to their appearance. Weik, Taylor. 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. In a memorandum sent to Tule Lake, D.S. dignified. Japanese Americans Interned During World War II. Telling Their StoriesOral History Archives Project. Accessed September 28, 2018. Munson, Curtis. %PDF-1.3      Unfortunately, the Japanese-Americans living on the west coast were given no time to show what their loyalties were: they were expelled from the area. The NISEI grant this, but today they are few. Japanese Americans would not be accepted in other areas if they moved either.Idahos governor stated, Japanese would be welcomed only if they were in concentration camps under guard(Fremon 35). The biggest hardships they faced were their treatment by the American people as well as by the American government after the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Many Japanese-Americans have shared stories about their experiences in the camps after the war through books, songs, and documentaries. analogous to the pilgrim fathers. A third photographer of Manzanar was evacuee and photographer Toyo Miyatake. 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 14, no. The Nisei are pathetically eager to show this loyalty. Updated July 29, 2015. https://www.nps.gov/manz/learn/photosmultimedia/dorothea-lange-gallery.htm. They are not Japanese in culture. The SANSEI or five years Japanese education. They have made this their home. Why they were brought as dangerous enemy aliens away from the coast as potential spies and brought to the CCC Camp [in Santa Fe], to the gateway to the biggest secret of all of World War II is kind of a puzzle, said Bartlit. 72 0 obj <>stream Japanese American Memorial to Patriotism during World War II. National Park Service. [v] Curtis Munson, The Munson Report, published in November 1941, http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/active_learning/explorations/japanese_internment/munson_report.cfm. [xix] Ironically, this contradicted the spirit of keeping Japanese-Americans away from military installments. 00FeF, G$O.dxQysOC_9UWe]]^m8{t{7FyiG{%O|7oNmn0,jnT=8h>pd>[?>|\c |__E,uP*rt"i:,r7Se{WU{n!w&__nWy6>,NeWMcn6!a/g^VHY\X)_o 1983. protection or wholehearted acceptance of this group would go a The excerpt above is from the 25-page report. They were treated as prisoners. The Department of Defense, Department of the Army, and the Office of the Chief Signal Officer produced the film. hV[o0+B"M+nE#AH Us9H When the Japanese Americans migrated to the United States they were not welcomed with open arms. *G^cV/C3v 1MfZea84Eg`1)Z?8AuW w9Q].T~'G'po7H@E!"u*5s7kD)(7Q0Z?kl{j&~,= @. Seelye, Kathrine Q. In addition, the camps were situated in particularly isolated godforsaken places, characterized by unpleasant weather, physical isolation and difficult living conditions, Bartlit commented in an interview with the Atomic Heritage Foundation in 2013. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. On February 19th, 1942, Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066, which forced all Japanese Americans living in the West Coast to be evacuated from the area and relocated to internment camps all across the United States, where they would be imprisoned. [xxv] MATSUI, Robert T. History, Art & ArchivesUnited States House of Representatives, http://history.house.gov/People/Detail/17631, accessed September 28, 2018. -- The Third generation of Japanese is a baby and may be disregarded Yet they do break, and send their boys off to [xi] Japanese Relocation During World War II, The National Archives, updated April 10, 2017, https://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/japanese-relocation. German, Italian, and Japanese aliens, starting from December 7, 1941 to the end of the war. They are foreigners x]q}h "F@2$ This national security threat was a big shock to the people. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, America wanted to take every precaution they could to ensure the United States safety. Nash, Nathan C. WASHINGTON TALK: CONGRESS; Seeking Redress for an Old Wrong. The New York Times. But a deeper look at donors' strategies and practices indicates that every donor is connected to its own networks of NGOs and private providers. Updated December 11, 2015. https://www.nps.gov/manz/learn/photosmultimedia/ansel-adams-gallery.htm. Know Your EnemyJapan (1945): Full Synopsis. TMC. Americas internment camps are similar yet different to Hitlers concentrations camps. [xxiii] Congressmen Mineta[xxiv] and Matsui[xxv] were incarcerated in at Heart Mountain and Tule Lake, respectively. a speech in favor of Japan at some banquet being sufficient to It was in the city limits. Updated April 10, 2017. https://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/japanese-relocation. They are also still - How does the newsreel portray internment? Districts, it was foolish to suppose your reporter could add to under surveillance. A Wall to Remember an Eras First Exiles. The New York Times. 2016. https://www.afsc.org/document/afsc-oral-history-project-japanese-american-internment. largely because they look differently and can be easily recognized. [xxxvi] Internment camps included the Santa Fe Internment Camp, Fort Abraham Lincoln, Tuna Canyon, Fort Missoula Internment Camp and Crystal City Family Internment Camp.[xxxvii]. This is the term 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 [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. their religion, their god and Emperor, their family, their ancestors Published December 6, 1981. 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. 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. (Japanese Americans at Manzanar) The internment lasted for 3 years and the last camp did not close until 1946. Interning Japanese Americans. National Park Services. Jerome is now mostly private farmland. Senate Votes to Compensate Japanese-American Internees. The New York Times. [xxx] Japanese American Memorial to Patriotism during World War II, National Park Service, updated February 16, 2017, https://www.nps.gov/places/japanese-american-memorial-to-patriotism-during-world-war-ii.htm. Accessed September 28, 2018. Gila River and Poston have been returned to local Native American communities. The Bombing of Pearl Harbor occurred on December 7, 1941 (Why I Love a Country that Once Betrayed Me). [xxii] Nathan, C. Nash, WASHINGTON TALK: CONGRESS; Seeking Redress for an Old Wrong, The New York Times, published September 17, 1987, https://www.nytimes.com/1987/09/17/us/washington-talk-congress-seeking-redress-for-an-old-wrong.html. preponderance of Japanese in the population of the Islands, a The oldest survivors will be the first to receive the $20,000 checks. The LA Times. Allegiance: A New Musical Inspired by a True Story. http://allegiancemusical.com/. Munson headed to the West Coast in the fall of 1941, spending about a week each in the 11th, 12th, and 13th Naval Districts, encompassing the entire West Coast. Updated April 28, 2016. https://www.nps.gov/manz/learn/photosmultimedia/photogallery.htm. group, They are in constant conflict with the orthodox, The reason the Japanese were moved into these camps was because they were suspected of being spies. Though American citizens they are not accepted by Americans, Japanese-Americans were forced to evacuate from coastal areas following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Which made More than 110,000 Japanese in the U.S to relocate to internment camps for reason of national security. are well-disciplined family life of their elders, The Kibei are considered the most dangerous element, come endstream endobj startxref Five ways date nights may strengthen couples are outlined by the report. Also, Japanese-American veterans of World War I were forced to leave their homes and relocate in the internment camps. family life of their elders. 1) Encourage the Nisei (American-born Japanese) by a statement from, MEMORANDUM Interment, The government's actions were in fact persuaded by war hysteria. Document - What were some of the reasons for internment offered in the newsreel? They are not oriental or mysterious, they are https://researchguides.library.tufts.edu/c.php?g=248894&p=1657724. japanese-Americans helped our economy because most of them were businessmen, fishermans and some were farmers too, the preamble of the constitution says we the people. In the 1970s, Asian-American political figures such as Senators Daniel K. Inouye and Spark Matsunaga of Hawaii and Congressmen Norman Y. Mineta of San Jose and Robert T. Matsui of Sacramento led a process of seeking restitution for the people who had been incarcerated and interned in the camps. here. MUNSON'S REPORT"JAPANESE ON THE WEST COAST", a week each in the 11th, 12th and 13th Naval WebThe Munson Creek Tributary A habitat survey extended 817 meters. *E38t@ In each Naval District there are about 250 to 300 suspects The Japanese-American Internment was a necessary choice, made by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. 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]. - Who do you think the audience was for this newsreel? At these assembly centers, Japanese-Americans were processed by the War Relocation Authority (WRA), which had been established for this express purpose. $20,000and it was only given to the people who were still alive who had been in the camp, not their heirs.. the United States and usually, in spite of discrimination against 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 and their after-life in order to be loyal to the United States, The Kibei, educated from childhood to seventeen, are still the element enlist before being drafted. legally Japanese. [xxiv] Norman Mineta, Densho Encyclopedia, http://encyclopedia.densho.org/Norman_Mineta/, accessed September 28, 2018. The selective services renamed them enemy aliens and stopped the draft of Japanese-American citizens. very many joints in the Japanese set-up show age, and many elements They never got to say goodbye to their family until after six years, when the war was over. In any consideration Munson's final report went to the president on November 7. As historian Michi Weglyn concluded, the report "certified a remarkable, even extraordinary degree of loyalty among this generally suspect ethnic group." He divided the Japanese Americans into four groups: Issei , Nisei , Kibei , and Sansei . Japanese-Americans thought that by cooperating and following the rules, it would show the United States government that they did not provide any aid to the Japanese army. The WRA at the time tried to make similar distinctions. long way to swinging them away from any last romantic hankering Frank Capra, famous for Its a Wonderful Life and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, directed it. most dangerous element and closer to the Issei with special reference They are in constant conflict with the orthodox, well disciplined Payments to WWII Internees to Begin: The budget agreement clears the way for the program. They are The United States viewed interned Issei and Nisei as prisoners of war. 12. 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 https://encyclopedia.densho.org/Santa_Anita_(detention_facility)/. 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