UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
EXTRADITION TREATY BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND JAPAN
SIGNED AT TOKYO, ON THE 29th April, 1886
Ratified at Tokyo, on the 27th September, 1886
His Majesty the Emperor of Japan and the President of the United States of America having judged it expedient, with a view to the better administration of justice, and to the prevention of crime within the two countries and their jurisdictions, that persons charged with or convicted of the crimes or offences hereinafter named, and being fugitives from justice, should, under certain circumstances, be reciprocally delivered up, they have named as their Plenipotentiaries to conclude a Treaty for this purpose, that is to say:
His Majesty the Emperor of Japan, Count Inouye Kaoru, Jiusammi, His Imperial Majesty's Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, First Class of the order of the Rising Sun, &c., &c., &c, and the President of the United States of America, Richard B. Hubbard, their Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary near His Imperial Majesty the Emperor of Japan, 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 jurisdic- tion of the other party.
Art. II.-1.-Murder and assault with intent to commit murder.
2.-Counterfeiting or altering money, or uttering or bringing into circulation counterfeit or altered money, counterfeiting certificates or coupons of public inde ted- ness, bank notes, or other instruments of public credit of either of the parties, and the utterance or circulation of the same.
3.-Forgery, 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 the pu' lic officers or depositaries.
5.-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; and the act of breaking and entering the housef another, whether in the day or night time, with the intent to commit a felony therein.
7. The act of entering, or of breaking and entering, the offices of the Govern- ment and public authorities, or the offices of anks, lanking-houses, savings-banks, 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.
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