Kiyoshi Uchiyama

{{Short description|Japanese diplomat}}

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{{nihongo|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.{{cite book|last=Heuterman|first=Thomas H.|title=The Burning Horse: Japanese-American Experience in the Yakima Valley, 1920-1942|url=https://archive.org/details/burninghorsejapa00heut|url-access=registration|year=1995|publisher=Eastern Washington UP|isbn=9780910055260}}{{cite book|last=Nomura|first=Gail|editor=Charles McClain|title=Asian Indians, Filipinos, Other Asian Communities, and the Law|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pSMZbDs1GQ4C&pg=PA54|year=1994|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=9780815318514|pages=49–68|chapter=Within the Law: The Establishment of Filipino Leasing Rights on the Yakima Indian Reservation}} 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".{{cite journal|last=Wilson|first=Sandra|year=1995|title=Containing the Crisis: Japan's Diplomatic Offensive in the West, 1931-33|journal=Modern Asian Studies|volume=29|issue=2|pages=337–72|jstor=312817}} 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{{cite book|last=Lee|first=Shelley Sang-Hee|title=Claiming the Oriental Gateway: Prewar Seattle and Japanese America|url=https://archive.org/details/claimingoriental00lees_0|url-access=registration|year=2011|publisher=Temple UP|isbn=9781439902158|page=[https://archive.org/details/claimingoriental00lees_0/page/120 120]}} in an atmosphere of anti-Japanese sentiment.{{cite book|last=Hirobe|first=Izumi|title=Japanese Pride, American Prejudice: Modifying the Exclusion Clause of the 1924 Immigration Act|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aodXI-385HoC&pg=PA191|year=2001|publisher=Stanford UP|isbn=9780804738132|pages=191–92}}

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.{{cite book|last=Karnow|first=Stanley|author-link=Stanley Karnow|title=In Our Image: America's Empire in the Philippines|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VbwogbQ3l8UC&pg=PT863|year=2010|publisher=Random House|isbn=9780307775436|page=863}} In the buildup to the war Uchiyama implemented the Japanese policy of subsidizing Japanese farmers in the Philippines.{{cite news|title=The Philippines|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DkkEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA56|access-date=29 July 2015|date=1939-02-13|newspaper=Life|pages=50–58}}