Kiyoshi Uchiyama

Kiyoshi Uchiyama (内山 清, Uchiyama Kiyoshi) was a Japanese diplomat.

In the 1930s he was Japan's consul in Seattle, and was involved in the investigation of the bombing of Japanese-owned farms in the Yakima Valley in the state of Washington during racial unrest related to Filipino agricultural laborers.^[1][2] From 1931 to 1933, as part of ongoing Japanese efforts to keep strong diplomatic ties with the US, he toured Washington state extensively, lecturing for many major organizations on the Sino-Japanese conflict; his efforts were described as "indefatigable".^[3] In 1935 he advocated the teaching of Japanese in US high schools to bring East and West closer together, and defended the Japanese invasion of Manchuria^[4] in an atmosphere of anti-Japanese sentiment.^[5]

At the beginning of World War II, he was consul-general to the Philippines stationed in Manila, trying to gain support from the Filipinos for Japan.^[6] In the buildup to the war Uchiyama implemented the Japanese policy of subsidizing Japanese farmers in the Philippines.^[7]

References

1. Heuterman, Thomas H. (1995). The Burning Horse: Japanese-American Experience in the Yakima Valley, 1920-1942. Eastern Washington UP. ISBN 9780910055260.
2. Nomura, Gail (1994). "Within the Law: The Establishment of Filipino Leasing Rights on the Yakima Indian Reservation". In Charles McClain (ed.). Asian Indians, Filipinos, Other Asian Communities, and the Law. Taylor & Francis. pp. 49–68. ISBN 9780815318514.
3. Wilson, Sandra (1995). "Containing the Crisis: Japan's Diplomatic Offensive in the West, 1931-33". Modern Asian Studies. 29 (2): 337–72. JSTOR 312817.
4. Lee, Shelley Sang-Hee (2011). Claiming the Oriental Gateway: Prewar Seattle and Japanese America. Temple UP. p. 120. ISBN 9781439902158.
5. Hirobe, Izumi (2001). Japanese Pride, American Prejudice: Modifying the Exclusion Clause of the 1924 Immigration Act. Stanford UP. pp. 191–92. ISBN 9780804738132.
6. Karnow, Stanley (2010). In Our Image: America's Empire in the Philippines. Random House. p. 863. ISBN 9780307775436.
7. "The Philippines". Life. 1939-02-13. pp. 50–58. Retrieved 29 July 2015.