Ishikawa v. Acheson

McLaughlin, judge.

This is a proceeding under § 903 of Title 8 United States Code Annotated, for a declaratory judgment as to the plaintiff’s citizenship.

Laying aside the color of the case, which portrays the plaintiff to have stood upon his rights as either a citizen of the United States or a subject , of Japan alternatively as best suited his personal purpose, pleasure, comfort, and convenience, the salient facts are as follows:

The plaintiff by virtue of being born in Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii, on July 11, 1916, to alien parents acquired at birth and since has retained the dual status of…