JAPAN: Again, Hanihara

Smiling Masanao Hanihara, one-time (1923-24) Japanese Ambassador to the U.S., is again in the news. He it was who said (TIME. April 21, 1924) that the last U. S. Immigration Law, which definitely excluded Orientals from citizenship in the U. S., would have “grave consequences, ” a phrase that cost him his post at Washington and caused a flurry in U. S. Japanese relations. Now Smiling Masanao, who has been employed in the Tokyo Foreign Office these past three years, is to go to Brussels as the Japanese Ambassador to the court of King Albert of the Belgians.