In re Takao Ozawa

This petition for naturalization is opposed by the United States district attorney on the ground that *672the petitioner, being, as the facts are, a person of the Japanese race and born in Japan, is not eligible to citizenship under Revised Statutes, section 2169, which limits naturalization to “free white persons” and those of African nativity and descent. The other qualifications are found by the court to be fully established, and are conceded by the government. Twenty years’ continuous residence in the United States, including over nine years’ residence in Hawaii, graduation from the Berkeley…