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Renegotiating Japan′s Unequal Treaties – A Window on Late Nineteenth–Century Diplomacy

A Window on Late Nineteenth-Century Diplomacy

Av Kaoru Iokibe

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Japan was compelled to open its doors to Western commerce in the 1850s and 1860s. Yet because the treaties signed at that time reflected the Western powers’ dominant position, Japanese foreign policy’s prime imperative in the initial decades afterward was to rectify these unequal treaties. This book, appearing in English for the first time, explains the political process of the negotiations attempting revision of the treaties in the context of events both inside and outside Japan.
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  • Utgivningsdatum: 2026-01-01
  • Mått: 152 x 229 x 15 mm
  • Vikt: 666 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 400
  • Förlag: University of Tokyo Press
  • ISBN: 9784130270342
  • Översättare: Fred Uleman
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Kaoru Iokibe is a professor at the Graduate School of Law and Politics, University of Tokyo.

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This book brings a fresh perspective to a classic and still important historical issue: the character of the unequal treaties imposed on Japan by the West, and the character of the Japanese response to those treaties. The government’s efforts to revise the treaties—and popular responses to those efforts—were a crucible for Japan’s modern nationalism, just as recent efforts to revise the treaty relations between Japan and the United States have produced renewed articulations of nationalism across the political spectrum. By also bringing into view the efforts to revise the Sino-Japanese treaty of 1871, Iokibe offers a more dynamic understanding of a Meiji era history too often divided into separate histories of ‘Japan and the West’ and ‘Japan and Asia.’ He takes full account of recent works which challenge a simplistic view of the treaties as patently and obviously ‘unequal’ from the start. He then goes on to carefully specify the ways in which, and the moments at which, these treaties both functioned as unequal agreements and were understood to be unequal.

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