I wrote in 1990 about how the Japanese American Citizens League commissioned the report, then tried to bury it when they saw the direction it was taking ("Report Says Wartime JACL Leaders Collaborated").

This Web site has been one of the two places on the Internet where you can download an uncensored copy of the Research Report prepared for the Presidential Select Committee on JACL Resolution #7, submitted in 1990 by Deborah K. Lim. Now you can obtain in book form, free of charge, the report that details the JACL's role of cooperation and collaboration with government exclusion orders in 1942. It's all somewhat mysterious, but the Lim Report has been self-published with the author's permission. No publisher is named anywhere, but thanks to whoever was responsible for alerting readers to the online version here at Resisters.com. William Hohri outlines the history of this book in his Rambler's Nemesis column of August 28 in the Rafu Shimpo newspaper.

Watch a 70-second QuickTime video clip of Heart Mountain resistance leader Frank Emi's remarks on May 11, 2002, challenging the Japanese American Citizens League to address the question of its wartime collaboration with incarceration, even as the group was apologizing to Emi and others for its suppression of wartime resistance. Click on the image on the right, you will need to download the free Quicktime Player. See our new page devoted to the story of the JACL apology to the Heart Mountain resisters.

In this first clip, Emi makes reference to what's commonly known as "The Lim Report."

Free copies may be obtained via e-mail at: [email protected].  Just ask for "The Lim Report" and be sure to include your mailing address. If you want to mail your request, address it to:

Pat Glaviano
Kelley, Drye and Warren
101 Park Avenue #2900
New York, NY 10178

Updated: December 2, 2002