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Masanao Hanihara 1921

August 25th 1876: Born Yamanashi, Japan
1897: Graduated from the Department of English Political Science of the Tokyo Senmon Gakko
1898: Joined Ministry of Foreign Affairs with his first posting to Seoul
1902: Arrived in United States as an attache at Japanese Embassy at Washington DC
1905: Attended Portsmouth Peace Conference between Japan and Russia as suite of commissioner plenipotentiary
1911: Left post at Japanese Embassy in Washington having risen to position of Secretary
June 1st 1916 to 1917: Japan’s Consul General San Francisco
Member of the Ishii Mission that negotiated the Lansing–Ishii Agreement
Then: Director-general of International Trade Bureau, Japan
1918: Director-general of Political Affairs Bureau
1919: Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs
1921: Commissioner plenipotentiary to Washington Naval Conference
December 1922: Appointed ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary to the United States
February 1923: arrived in Washington
April 1924: Protested the passage of the Immigration Law by the United States in a letter that was taken as a “veiled threat”.
1924: Returned to Japan
1927: Offered the post of ambassador to Belgium which he refused
1927: Resigned government post
December 20th 1934: Died

According to his obituary in The Time :

Diplomacy—A Japanese Opinion by Masanao Hanihara The Living Age, April 3, 1926, pp. 31-33