Ozasa

The hearing in the present case relates only to the plaintiff George Y. Ozasa, who alleges in the complaint that he was born in the State of Oregon in 1921, and when about ten years of age was sent to Japan in 1932 to secure an education. In 1944 he was drafted into the Japanese Army and served therein not as his free and voluntary act, but involuntarily and as the result of coercion. He further charges that as an American citizen in 1949 he applied for a passport to return to the United States, which was illegally and unjustly denied by the United States in April, 1949 and approved by the State Department of the United States. He now asserts that the defendant be ordered to issue a passport to him as a citizen of the United States.

The evidence is voluminous and there does not appear much conflict of the material facts relating to the principal question here as to whether or not this plaintiff’s American citizenship should be canceled by reason of his conduct and activities while in Japan. We find that he was born in the State of Oregon, and went to Japan in 1932, when he was of the age of ten and one-half years, to secure an education in the schools there, with the intention of…