Japan Diplomat Baron Kogoro Takahira Autographed Letter, Russo-Japanese War

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Japan Diplomat Baron Kogoro Takahira Autographed Letter, Russo-Japanese War:
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JAPAN DIPLOMAT BARON KOGORŌ TAKAHIRASIGNED LETTER

Typed letter signeddated 10/21/1901 as Japan\'s Ambassador to the United Sates. Takahire writes to Mary Bingham Wasson, daughter of John A. Bingham, Congressman who was alsoU.S. Ambassadorto Japan congratulating her on tributes to her father who he says was a great help to U.S. - Japan Treaty of Portsmouth which ended the Russo-Japanese War.

Normal letter folds otherwise very good condition.

Baron Takahira Kogorō KCMG (高平小五郎, January 29, 1854 – November 28, 1926) was a Japanese diplomat and ambassador to the United States from 1900 to 1909.

Takahira was born in what is now Ichinoseki city, Iwate prefecture.[1] From relatively modest beginnings, Takahira was to become a graduate of Kaisei Gakkō (the predecessor to Tokyo Imperial University).

In 1876, he joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. His first posting to the United States in 1879 was as an attaché; and he was promoted to secretary in 1881. During a return to Asia, he served briefly as chargé d\'affaires in Korea and as Consul General in Shanghai, China. In 1887, he returned to the United States as Consul General in New York City. Postings in Europe as Minister-Resident to Netherlands and Denmark, and as Minister Plenipotentiary at Rome, Vienna and Bern spanned the years before his 1901 return to Washington, D.C. He then continued as Japan\'s minister in the United States from 1901 through 1905.[1]

Negotiating the Treaty of Portsmouth (1905) -- from left to right: the Russians at far side of table are Korostovetz, Navohoff, Witte, Rosen, Plancoff; and the Japanese at near side of table are Adachi, Ochiai, Komura, Takahira, Satō. The large conference table is today preserved at the Museum Meiji Mura in Inuyama, Aichi Prefecture, Japan.

Takahira participated in a number of important Japanese-US negotiations. Takahira was one of the principals of the Japanese delegation negotiating with the Russians to conclude The Treaty of Portsmouth, which ended the Russo-Japanese War.

In 1907, Takahira was named Ambassador to Rome. The Foreign Ministry called him back to Washington, D.C. in 1908-1909.

As principal negotiator for Japan, his name is commemorated in the 1908 Root-Takahira Agreement, which was intended to ease Japanese-US tension by defining each nation\'s role in the Pacific arena and China.[1]

Takahira later elevated to danshaku (baron) under the kazoku peerage system, and was appointed to the House of Peers, and subsequently served on the Privy Council.

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