
Ozawa
v. United States,
260 U.S. 178 (1922)
˘Ozawa’s brief
argued:
˘ The Japanese are “free.”
They are, at least the dominant strains, are “white persons,”
speaking an Aryan tongue and having Caucasian root stocks; a superior
class fit for citizenship. . . . The
Japanese are commonly called “The Yankees of the Orient.”