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Ishii Kikujirō
Japanese statesman and diplomat
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Ishii Kikujirō (born March 10, 1866, Awa province, Japan—died May 25, 1945, Tokyo) was a Japanese statesman and diplomat who effectively championed a cautious expansion of Japan and cooperation with the West in the decades immediately before and after World War I. In 1907 he was sent to investigate rising anti-Japanese sentiment in San Francisco and Vancouver, British Columbia. He helped negotiate the “gentlemen’s agreement” between Japan and the United States, by which the Japanese government promised to withhold passports from labourers intending to migrate to the United States. In 1917 he negotiated the Lansing–Ishii Agreement, in which the United ...(100 of 168 words)