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To a Mrs. Hull, introducing “a good friend of mine – Mr. S. Yamaguchi – who is going to Cambridge to study at Harvard”, for which he was “well prepared” after study at the Imperial College in Tokyo. “I think that he ought to be admitted into College at least as a special student at once…without examination….” Sakai asks that his old buddies at Harvard assist Yamaguchi who “belongs to a good family and…is a fine man. I am sure that you and the boys will like him…”  Sakai himself had received a graduate degree at Harvard in 1898, one of the select group of Japanese students who attended the University after the first had enrolled in the 1870s. Seitaro Yamaguchi represented a second wave of Japanese from wealthy families who came to Harvard early in the 20th century, being welcomed to the same exclusive social clubs as Roosevelts and Kennedys (from which Jews and African-Americans were excluded). Ironically, one of these Harvard visitors, future Admiral Yamamoto, later planned the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.