USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -It called for U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt to force San Francisco to repeal its Japanese-American school segregation order in exchange for Japan agreeing to deny emigration passports to Japanese laborers, while still allowing wives, children and parents of current immigrants to enter the United States.

Detailed explanation-2: -Gentlemen’s Agreement, (1907), U.S.-Japanese understanding in which Japan agreed not to issue passports to emigrants to the United States, except to certain categories of business and professional men.

Detailed explanation-3: -A gentleman’s agreement, defined in the early 20th century as “an agreement between gentlemen looking toward the control of prices, ” was reported by one source to be the loosest form of a “pool.” Such agreements have been reported to be found in every type of industry and are numerous in the steel and iron industries.

Detailed explanation-4: -Japan did not want the United States to pass any legislation such as had happened to the Chinese under the Chinese Exclusion Act. US President Theodore Roosevelt, who had a positive opinion of Japan, accepted the Agreement as proposed by Japan to avoid more formal immigration restrictions.