HANIHARA, MASANAO Japanese states man, was born in Yamanashi-Ken. He graduated from Waseda university, Tokyo, in 1897 and entered the diplomatic service. In 1899 he went to the legation at Seoul (Korea) as attaché, being transferred to Washington in the same capacity in 1901. After a year of service there, he was made secretary, invited specially to study American affairs, and later became chief secretary for foreign affairs. He felt that American-Japanese relations were unsatisfactory and wished to impress upon the citizens of the United States the necessity for friendly co-operation with the Japanese. He was sent to San Francisco as consul-general in 1916, remaining until the end of 1917. Returning to Tokyo he first became director of political affairs and then, in 1919, vice minister for foreign affairs. As vice-minister he was one of the four delegates to the Washington Conference 1921-22. In 1923 he was appointed Japanese ambassador to Washington, and it is maintained in America that his reference, in a public speech, to the "regrettable consequences which would follow the passage" of the immigration bill, was responsible for the bill becoming law. The Japanese Government realizing that some blunder had been made, recalled Hanihara in 1924.