Editing Gentlemen's agreement (section)

===International relations===
After intense anti-Japanese sentiment developed on the West Coast, US President [[Theodore Roosevelt]] did not want to anger Japan by supporting legislation to bar Japanese immigration to the United States, as had been done for Chinese immigration. Instead, there was an informal [[Gentlemen's Agreement of 1907|"Gentlemen's Agreement" (1907–8)]] and a corresponding informal [[Ladies' Agreement]] between the United States and Japan, whereby Japan made sure there was very little or no movement to the US. The agreements were made by US Secretary of State [[Elihu Root]] and Japan's Foreign Minister, [[Tadasu Hayashi]]. The agreement banned emigration of Japanese laborers to the United States and rescinded the segregation order of the San Francisco School Board in [[California]], which had humiliated and angered the Japanese. The agreement did not apply to the [[Territory of Hawaii]]. The agreements remained effective until 1924, when Congress forbade all immigration from Japan.<ref>Carl R. Weinberg, "The 'Gentlemen's Agreement' of 1907-08," ''OAH Magazine of History'' (2009) 23#4 pp 36-36.</ref> Similar anti-Japanese sentiment in Canada at the same time led to the Hayashi-Lemieux Agreement, also referred to as the "[[Gentleman's Agreement of 1908|Gentlemen's Agreement of 1908]]", with substantially similar clauses and effects.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://pier21.ca/research/immigration-history/gentlemens-agreement-1908|title=Gentlemen's Agreement, 1908 &#124; Pier 21|access-date=2020-05-21|archive-date=2021-04-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210413164906/https://pier21.ca/research/immigration-history/gentlemens-agreement-1908|url-status=live}}</ref>