Background
Usaburo Ishibashi was born in Hirado (Nagasaki Prefecture) to a family of dry goods traders.
禹三郎 石橋
Usaburo Ishibashi was born in Hirado (Nagasaki Prefecture) to a family of dry goods traders.
Usaburo Ishibashi participated in the Chilean Revolution as an American sailor (1891). Returned home in 1892. The following year when France invaded Siam, he made out a plan for Japanese immigration to Siam, but to no avail.