Masanao Hanihara

Masanao Hanihara (埴原 正直, Hanihara Masanao, August 25, 1876 – December 20, 1934) was a Japanese diplomat.

Masanao Hanihara in 1921

Biography

He was born on August 25, 1876.

He came to the United States in 1902 as a member of the Japanese Embassy at Washington, D.C., was consul general at San Francisco in 1916–18, then returned to Japan as director of the Bureau of Commerce of the Japanese Foreign Office.[1] He was a member of the Ishii Mission from which came the Lansing–Ishii Agreement. He was also an influential member of the Washington Disarmament Conference. In December 1922, he was appointed ambassador to the United States, and arrived in Washington in February 1923. His protest, in April 1924, on the passage of the immigration law by the United States government because it would bar the admission of Japanese to the country, was interpreted as "a veiled threat" by the Senate, and had quite an opposite effect from that intended. After the passage of the bill, It was rumored that Hanihara was to be recalled by the Japanese government. Although this was denied, it was soon announced that he would visit Tokyo on leave of absence.

He came back to Japan in 1924 and resigned his Government post in 1927. He died at the age of 58 in 1934.

References

1. "在サンフランシスコ日本国総領事館の歴史". Consulate of Japan at San Francisco. Retrieved 13 February 2018.

• This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead. Missing or empty |title= (help)

Diplomatic posts
Preceded by Matsuzo Nagai	Japanese Consul-General at San Francisco 1916–1918	Succeeded by Tamekichi Ōta
Preceded by Kijūrō Shidehara	Japanese Ambassador to the United States 1922–1924	Succeeded by Tsuneo Matsudaira