Rokui
Rokui v. Acheson
Opinion
lead Opinion
Cavanah, J.
The plaintiff brings this action declaring that she is an American citizen and to be recognized as such, and that a passport be issued to her to return to the United States as an American citizen, and asserts that she was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, on May 10, 1922, and went to Japan with her parents in August, 1940, at the age of eighteen to attend school and visit relatives there temporarily. Before leaving for Japan she attended the public schools in the United *440 States to the extent of two years in high school. Her parents returned, to the United States, leaving her in Japan with her grandmother until she completed her education there. She was denied a passport back to the United States after the war between the United States and Japan broke out.
An analysis of the evidence discloses that the plaintiff’s life and activities since the time of her birth have been one consisting of the ideas and devotion of an American citizen, for the atmosphere she has been in and her training establish that her mind and heart have been constantly wrapped up in her loyalty and devotion for the American ideas of government, as disclosed by the manner in which she testified while on ■the…