A STRANGE CLAIM

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 15 August 1921, Page 5

A STRANGE CLAIM

JAPAN A WHITE iRACE.

BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT < WASHINGTON, Aug. 13. ' It is learned that the United States ] Supreme Court will be asked to declare ] Japanese a -white race, and. iihus en- ( titled to American citizenship. The i request ds to be made in the case of j Takao Osawa versus the United States, in which the petitioner is seeking to •establish the right to become a natural- j ised American. A former AttorneyGeneral (Mr Wickersham), who is ap- ■ pearing for Osawa, will claim that the Japanese are descended from Ainus ■and Yamatas, both being: Caucasian, and which were originally "Mediterranean stock.