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Korematsu v. United States, 323 U.S. 214 (1944), was a landmark decision by the Supreme Court of the United States that upheld the internment of Japanese Americans from the West Coast Military Area during World War II.
1986: The Supreme Court allows NCJAR lawyers to present arguments for their lawsuit but eventually orders the case be heard in the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals instead. September 17, 1987 : H.R. 442, named after the famed all-Japanese combat unit , is brought to the House floor for discussion and eventually passes 243 to 141.
Takao Ozawa v. United States, 260 U.S. 178 (1922), was a US legal proceeding. The United States Supreme Court found Takao Ozawa, a Japanese American who was born in Japan but had lived in the United States for 20 years, ineligible for naturalization. [1] In 1914, Ozawa filed for United States citizenship under the Naturalization Act of 1906 ...
Kawakita v. United States, 343 U.S. 717 (1952), 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 acts performed in Japan during World War II. [1]
Japan’s Supreme Court on Monday dismissed Okinawa's rejection of a central government plan to build U.S. Marine Corps runways on the island and ordered the prefecture to approve it despite ...
TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan's Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that restricting a transgender woman's use of toilets at her workplace was "unacceptable", a decision that may help promote LGBT rights in ...
In addition, Japanese judges are generally career judges whose promotion and transfer can be greatly affected by the Supreme Court. [1] Because of this, scholars have commented that Supreme Court decisions are de facto even more binding than in common law countries. [1] Dicta by the Supreme Court is also often cited by lower courts. [44]
Japan’s top court has ruled that a government requirement for transgender people to be sterilized before they could be legally recognized was unconstitutional, in a victory for the country’s ...