Theodore Roosevelt's "Gentlemen's Agreement" with Japan

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Theodore Roosevelt's "Gentlemen's Agreement" with Japan caused Japan to halt the flow of laborers to America in return for the repeal of a racist school decree by the San Francisco School Board. The agreement was not related to the conclusion of the Russo-Japanese War, Roosevelt did win the 1906 Nobel Peace Prize, but it was not directly related to this agreement, there is no mention of "yellow journalism" being addressed in this agreement, and the agreement did not restrict Japanese immigration to upper-class gentlemen.