Bisbee daily review., 1907-07-21
THE BBEE DAILY REVIEW BEE ARIZONA MORNING. 1907
ALLEGED JAPANESE
 SPY FOR AMERICA
DefieS His Own Embassy and Declares He Will Die
 for America,

WASHINGTON, D. C.. July 19.-Ac- ! cused of being a Japanese spy. or at | least an agent of the Japanese war party carrying on the propaganda in | Washington with the purpose of stir ring up bad feeling and producing war | between the United States and Ja- pan, Dr. Masuji Miyakawa, born subject of the Mikado, has denounced 1 the Japanese minister in Washington 1 and his associates at the embassy as a pack of double dealing scoundrels and announced his intention to claim | his rights as an American citizen and his willingness, if necessary, to die ! for the stars and stripes.
 If war comes as a result of these | trifing irritations, count me under the American flag" said Miyakawa. ''If | the Japanese propose to shoot any body over this immigration matter let | them first shoot me. I am an Ameri- can citizen. Although my parents, relatives and many friends still live | in Japan and although I have many close and dear friends in my native land, my allegiance is to the country where have come to stay and where | have been adopted as a citizen" 1 Dr. Miyakawa was standing behind | a table covered with writing material, papers and books, in his apartments in the George Washington hotel, whose windows look out upon the United States treasury building and the white house. He had risen to his feet in his excitement and hammered the table in front of him with the tips of stiffened fingers, to give empnasis to his remarks.
 l For Local Courts.
 | "I know, said he, what kind oi
 stories are being circulated and in spired by the Japanese embassy, and 1, know they are trying to discredit
 me l was attorney in the cases
 brought in California for determining the rights of the Japanese in the pub 1 lie schools. I brought one of th'
 cases in the local court and another
 case was brought by the United States attorney general.
 Is An American Citizen.
 They were seriously offended a . the attitude which l took in my sin , cere efforts to avert internationa trouble and to put these subjects O irritation where they belonged. I cam, , on here when the delegation cam , from San Francisco to see Presiden Roosevelt. and I have remained herr ,I practically ever since. The ambassa
 dor and his crowd at the embassy dt not like 10 have me here. l see thu , stories in the newspapers which the. f inspire in which they suggest that ; am a person without any standing . and that I am the agent of the SC called progressive party in Japan. I l has even been suggested that thu American authorities can have me ruI , out of Washington as a foreigner dis turbing to the peace.
 NOW I want to have it distinctly understood that l am an American cit
 zen and have been since 1905"
 Here Dr. Miyakawa produced a bun dle of certificates and the original ere
 dentials of the half dozen decTees
 which he holds from American col Ieges. The first citizenship papers appeared as having been taken out in
 the United States circuit court Ot
 the southern district of New York; the second papers in the Monroe cOuu
 ty circuit court of Indiana on the 9th day of October, 1905. In these pap CTS Dr. Miyakawa renOunced his ale glance to Japan and swoTe to support
 the American flag. These papers were
 taken out before the passage by con gress of the recent law creating 2
 board which passes on applications
 for citizenship by alien Japanese.
 No Trouble Maker.
 There are many Americans whC
 are willing to give their lives fol 1. their country" continued Miyakawa
 but there are not many men of Jap anese birth and rearing who are will
 ing to give their lives for the United
 States in a war with Japan. I say am willing to do that. I propose tC , stay in Washington and in so far al am able shall continue to expose tht double dealing methods of this pacl
 at the embassy. They pretend on'
 thing and are doing another. Wha
 you Americans need is more know ledge of the Japanese language ant methods. I was official interpreter fo
 the imperial Japanese army in Man