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Show JAPANESE WANT ' TO BEJTIZENS Would Share in Rights, Duties and Functions an$ Fight for United States. NEW YORK, May 31. Asserting that although discrimination against Japanese with reference to citizenship and land ownership Is "both unjust and unwise." Dr. Toyokichi Iyenaga, addressing the national conference on foreign relations of the United States, at Long Beach, N. Y., today declared that "tho Immigration question with Japan Is closed." The speaker, a former Japanese government gov-ernment official, said he spoke not in tho capacity of a representative of the Japanese government, but as a private pri-vate citizen, wishing to make this point clear, as a belief that he expressed express-ed the views xf his government tended tend-ed to interfere with his "freedom of speech." "What shall the United States do with her 80,000 resident Japanese?" he asked. "Is it wise for America to leave them long as aliens who form no corporate part of tho American system and aro debarrod from sharing the rights, duties and functions of her citizenry? cit-izenry? It is my firm belief that once a Japanese is admitted to American citizenship ho will bo loyal to his adopted country'. Thero aro hundfeds of Japanese in tho United States who would liko to enlist In tho American army, but they cannot because they aro denied cltlzonshlp." |