Hioki Eki

Hioki Eki

Hioki Eki ( Japanese 日 置 益 ; * December 21, 1861 ( traditionally : Bunkyū 1/11/20) in Mie Prefecture ; † October 22, 1926 ) was a Japanese diplomat .

Life

Hioki Eki studied law at the University of Tokyo , entered the foreign service in 1888 and was employed in Saint Petersburg and Pyongyang . From 1900 to 1904 he was employed in China. From September 16, 1907 to August 1, 1908, he was charge d'affaires in Berlin . Hioki Eki was from 1908 to 1914 was accredited as envoy in Lima and Santiago de Chile . From 1909 he was also accredited in Buenos Aires. Envoy to Beijing from 1914 to 1916. He replaced Yamaza Enjirō there, who had died. He dealt with Japanophobic representations in Chinese school books ( anti-Japanese sentiment ). In early 1915, the Japanese government offered the Chinese government to set up a Japanese protectorate in China.

From 1918 to 1920 he was envoy in Copenhagen and Stockholm . From 1920 to 1924 he was ambassador to Berlin . From October 26, 1925, he negotiated at the Special Tariff Conference in Beijing .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ian Nish: Jap Foreign Pol 1869-1942 . Vol. 11. Routledge, 1977, pp. 97 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
2. ^ Klaus Schlichtmann: Japan in the World: Shidehara Kijūrō, Pacifism, and the Abolition . Lexington Books, 2009, ISBN 978-0-7391-2675-2 , pp. 280 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
3. ^ WG Beasley: Japanese Imperialism, 1894-1945 . Oxford University Press, 1987, ISBN 978-0-19-822168-5 , pp. 112 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
4. ^ US Department of State (Ed.): The China White Paper . Vol. 1. Stanford University Press, Aug 1949, pp. 7 ( limited preview in Google Book search).

Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . So Hioki is the family name, Eki the first name.