Kawakita v. United States
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Kawakita v. United States, 343 U.S. 717, is a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court ruled that a dual U.S./Japanese citizen could be convicted of treason against the United States for ac
Kawakita at the Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary on November 3, 1953, shortly after having his death sentence commuted
Associate Justice William O. Douglas wrote the opinion of the Court in the Kawakita case.
Tomoya Kawakita, in a photograph taken at his 1948 trial for treason
Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson wrote the dissent in the Kawakita case.
Takeo Miki
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Takeo Miki was a Japanese politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan from 1974 to 1976.
Kawakita v. United States
…in Japan when the attack on Pearl Harbor drew the United States and Japan into World War II. In August 1943, with the assistance of a family friend, Takeo Miki, Kawakita took a job as an interpreter at a mining and metal processing plant. Shortly after Kawakita started working there, British and Canadian POWs…
Official portrait, 1974
Takeo Miki's birthplace
Miki in 1937