EXTRADITION TREATY BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND JAPAN.
SIGNED AT TOKYO, ON THE 29th April, 1886.
The President of the United States of America and his Majesty the Emperor of Japan, having judged it expedient, with a view to the better administration of justice and the prevention of crime within the two countries and their jurisdiction, that persons charged with or convicted of the crimes or offences hereafter named, and being fugitives from justice, should, under certain circumstances, be delivered up. they have named as their plenipotentiaries to conclude a treaty for the purposes, that is to say, the President of the United States of America, Richard B. Hubbard, their Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary near his Imperial Majesty, and his Majesty the Emperor of Japan, Count Inouye Kaoru, his Imperial Majesty's Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, First Class of the Order of the Rising Sun, etc., who, after having communicated to each other their respective full powers, found in good and due form, have agreed upon and concluded the following articles:
Art. I.—The high contracting parties engage to deliver up to each other, under the circumstances and conditions stated in the present treaty, all persons who being accused or convicted of one of the crimes or offences named below in Article II., and committed within the jurisdiction of the one party, shall be found within the jurisdiction of the other party.
Art. II.-1.-Murder, assault with intent to commit murder and manslaughter, 2.-Counterfeiting or altering money, or uttering or bringing into circulation counterfeit or altered money, counterfeiting certificates, coupons of public indebtedness, bank notes, or other instruments of public credit of either of the parties and the utterance or circulation of the same.
3.-Forging or altering and uttering what is forged or altered.
4.-Embezzlement or criminal malversation of the public funds committed within the jurisdiction of either party by public officers or depositors, and embezzlement of any person hired, salaried, or employed to the detriment of the employer or principal,
5.-Larceny of the value of $50 and upwards and robbery.
6.-Burglary defined to be the breaking and entering by night-time into the house of another person, with the intent to commit a felony therein.
7.-The act of entering, of breaking and entering the offices of the Government, public authorities or the offices of banks, banking houses, savings banks or trust companies, insurance or other companies, with the intent to commit a felony therein.
8.-Perjury or the subornation of perjury.
9.- Rape.
10.-Arson.
11.-Piracy by the law of nations.
12.-Murder, assault with intent to kill, and manslaughter committed on the high seas on board a ship bearing the flag of the demanding country.
13.-Malicious destruction of or attempt to destroy railway trains, vessels, bridges, dwellings, public edifices or other buildings when the act endangers human life.
14.-Fraud by a banker or a trustee or any officer, or a director of a bank or trust company made criminal by any law for the time being in force.
Art. III.-If the person demanded be held for trial in the country in which the demand is made, it shall be optional with the latter to grant extradition or to proceed with the trial, provided that unless the trial shall be for the crime for which the fugitive is claimed, the delay shall not prevent ultimate extradition.