United States v. Ushi Shiroma

McLaughlin, chief judge.

As in this criminal case it became necessary to decide whether, under the Treaty of Peace with Japan, Okinawa, Ryukyu Islands, is an area in the Pacific to which our nation’s sovereignty has been extended, the Findings and Conclusions orally made on July 27, 1954, are here recorded.

On May 6, 1954, an information was filed against the defendant, wherein he was charged with violating 8 U.S.C.A. § 1306(b), a misdemeanor. The information alleged that the defendant was an alien and that he failed “to notify the Attorney General in writing of his current address and furnish…