Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-03-08
JAPANESE HERE
NOT GOING BACK
INTO MILITARY
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country in which they make their APP
plication for exemption.
When asked about the military ex-
emption today Acting Consul General
a Arita said:
There are more than 10000 Japan.
csc in Hawaii Of military age, and OF
this number do not know Of one case
where q japanese has announced that
he will return to Japan for service.
We have been unusually busy receiy-
ing applications, and / am quite sure
that very few Japanese have failed to
register ..s.%.4
Japanese in Japan must take their
military examination from May to Sep
TENDER. In Hawaii the japanese make
their reports TO tho consul IN January.
February and March. The c4rtifi-
Gates Of residence must he IN the
hands of the Japanese bureau in ia
pan before April Is. January IS The
busiest month for us, ard the clerks
and attaches are kept busy night and
day.
Be Repeated Every Year. -
Zone of the rules set down by the
Japanese government states that the
Japanese citizen must receive his GER
tificate each year, from the time he
is 81 until he has reached the age Of
49, Previous to this ruling but one
certificate was given. / find that q
of the young japanese who
have asked for certificates are prom.
inent in business life here, and the
fact that nearly all have asked for
exemption proves that they are doing
well In Hawaii he concluded.
Those who fail to make application
to the consul and who do not receive
their certificates of residence may be
called back to Japan for military duty
In case they return to Japan they
will be In line for conscrtption. the
age for this service being from IL to
40.
A few years ago so or so young Jap
anese neglected to receive their GER
and they then received let
ter asking them to go back TO Japan
The matter was finally settled by the
Japanese consul, but not until q mum.
Der of Communications were issued.
No Emergency Case.
The clause In the regulation which
states that those who have been ex.
empted may be called on In emergency
cases has not as yet been used in con-
nection with Japanese residents Of Ha-
wall. This clause states that the for
eign resident is not entirely exempt,
nor will be exempted II he should re-
turn to japan.
"a wnoo@,f 10 f<,I
the Diet in Japan which rules that a
ioreign-born Japanese may decide at
The time of his ma iority whether or
not be wishes to become Japanese
subject or a citizen OF the foreign
country. has not as yet been passed
upon by Emperor Yoshihito Of Japan,
md this law = not In effect 4eonse-
Iuently.
Local Japanese are anxious to make
i test case on this point before the
aw is passed. and are seeking to have /,
/ local Hawaiian-born Japanese ap-
by for United States passport.
No Hawaiian.horn Japanese who |
las received q Japanese passport for
but on arriving In Japan
lave received a Japanese passport fonE
'eturn Consequently when the Amer
can-born Japanese has returned to !
Hawaii be has been detained at the
station.
Whether or not Japan would ack
lnwledge the passport OF the Hawai- /
an-born Japanese and whether a jap |
Inese passport would be issued for [
he return has not as yet been decid-
N II IL h0nad that n faaf casa eari
,e made as to whether Japan would (
recognize the party as an American
itizen or as q japanese.
Another point that II would settle /
s the matter of detention at the. i'm
migration STATEN To date all Japan-
'se steerage passen gers have heen desI
aimed, whether Hawaiian-born or not,
IS they have returned to Hawaii with
apsnese PASSPORTS