The Archive · 1929

A Japanese Wife in America

Right to Remain with Husband Upheld by Federal Judge Nicax, special sevice Los Angeles, Dec. 9.

Federal Judge William P. James has decided that the wife of 2 Japanese merchant is entitled to rethe United States despite a roling under the 1924 Exclusion Act.

To-day's decision specifically of. fected Mrs. Haruye Suzuki, whose husbatid, Mise Suzuki, has' carried fon a fight for five years to prevent her deportation to Japan, Tt was held that under the 1911 treaty between Japan and the United States, it had been agreed to admit Japanese immigrants who came to carry on some trade and not to work as common labourers.

The decision was based on the fact that Suzuki is vice-president of the Mutual Trading Company, a firm of wholesale grocers.—United Press.

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