Fusaye Kagimoto's Passport
date: label: date made
content: 1955
notes: label: Description
content: This is Fusae Kagimoto's United States of America passport from June 25, 1948. There is a description of Kagimoto inside, as well as a lot of information and stamps. The passport was created at the Consular Service of The United States of America in Kobe, Japan.
label: Description
content: On the page of "Renewal, extensions, amendments, limitations, and restrictions" there is printed information pertaining to Kagimoto. The first says "This passport is not valid for travel to or in any foreign state for the purposes of entering or serving in the armed forces of such a state."
label: Description
content: The second reads "This passport is valid only for use in returning to the United States before June 14, 1950 and not for continued residence in Japan."
label: Description
content: The third states that "I certify that the bearer has submitted to be evidence which I believe to be sufficient to over-come, as of the presumption of expatriation under Section 402 of the Nationality Act of 1940," although this has been struck through. The Nationality Act of 1940 revised laws relating to American citizenship and naturalization, signed into law a year after World War II began in Europe. The revised law defined that persons who were eligible citizenship through birth or naturalization and clarified the status of individuals and their children born or living in the continental U.S. and its territories. The law also defined who was not eligible for citizenship and how citizenship could be lost or terminated.
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content: The fourth says "Exit clearance granted by Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers," and is signed by Douglas Jenkins, Jr., but there is a black stamp across it that says "canceled".
label: Description
content: The fifth is a stamp from Honolulu, Hawai'i granting shore leave to Kagimoto on January 29, 1949.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Military and Society: Armed Forces History, Japanese American
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content: Executive Order 9066
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: gift of Fusae Kagimoto
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2016.3120.02
label: nonaccession number
content: 2016.3120
label: catalog number
content: 2016.3120.02
objectType: label: Object Name
content: passport
label: Object Name
content: Passport
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ink (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 in x 3 3/4 in x 1/32 in; 15.24 cm x 9.525 cm x .0508 cm