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Viscount Ishii Kikujir , was a Japanese diplomat and cabinet minister in Meiji, Taish and early Shwa period Japan. He served as Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Empire of Japan between 1915 and 1916.

Ishii was born in Mobara city, Kazusa Province . He graduated from the Law Department of Tokyo Imperial University and joined the Foreign Ministry. His first posting was as an attach to Paris in 1891, and he was later sent to Chemulpo, Korea in 1896 and to Beijing, China in 1897. During the Boxer Rebellion he served as Japanese diplomatic liaison with the various foreign interventionist armies, spending six months on the front with the Imperial Japanese Armys 5th Infantry Division.

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