Yoshio Murakami v. John Foster Dulles, as Secretary of State

Murakami, once a Nisei citizen of the United States, appeals from a judgment of the district court dismissing his complaint brought under 8 U.S.C. § 903 for a decree setting aside his renunciation of United States citizenship, adjudging he is a citizen or national of the United States and that he, coming to the United States solely to prosecute his suit, be given a passport to enter here. The court ordered that he be returned to Japan.

Murakami contends that the evidence does not support the findings of the district court, the principal finding so attacked being:

An agreed statement of facts showed the conditions prevailing at the Tule Lake Relocation Center to be as fully described in our opinion deciding the case of Acheson v. Murakami, 9 Cir., 176 F.2d 953 , which decision the government accepted. Violent pro-Japanese detainees beat up and knife slashed others who they thought were friendly to the United States, and at least one was murdered. Murakami testified to the court, which thus had him under observation through 83 pages of testimony, that he had renounced his United States citizenship under the same fear and coercion which we held in the earlier case of another…