Author: Alexander Von Siebold Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9780266179894 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 140
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Excerpt from Japan's Accession to the Comity of Nations Defective and unsatisfying as such an attempt to sketch the history of reform in Japan must necessarily be, the writer never theless thought it incumbent on him not to Shirk the task, seeing that, having lived so long in the Far East as an eye-witness of the events recorded, and as an occasional assistant of their authors, he felt particularly called upon to contribute to an appreciation of the magnificent achievements of the statesmen and diplomatists of the Meiji Era who have laid the foundation-stone of Japan's enlighten ment and international equality. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Alexander von Siebold Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1136924418 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 111
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This volume is based upon personal observations and recollections of the author extending over six different periods of residence in Japan between 1859 and 1877. It examines how the focus of the West towards Japan changed, as Japan became a dominant force in the political arena of the Far East when it freed itself of Chinese rule and, through the Meiji restoration adopted a democratic system of government based on the West. This rapid development in the history & governance of a nation had never been seen before on such a scale and this volume therefore covers a momentous period in the history of the Japan and its role in international politics.
Author: Kokusai Kirisutokyō Daigaku. Toshokan Publisher: Mitaka-shi, Tokyo : International Christian University Library ISBN: Category : English imprints Languages : en Pages : 708
Author: Louis G. Perez Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press ISBN: 9780838638040 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 260
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In the sweltering summer of 1894 Foreign Minister Mutsu Munemitsu knelt before the Japanese emperor Meiji to report that Japan's "long nightmare" was over at last. After forty years of humiliation, Japan was ridding itself of the hateful "Unequal Treaties." These treaties had been imposed upon a politically divided and militarily weakened nation by powerful mercantilist Western nations in mid-century. The treaties had hindered Japan's economic development because of discriminatory tariff restrictions, they had poisoned Japan's foreign relations, and they had truncated its legal sovereignty by virtue of extraterritoriality. The final six months of negotiations are carefully examined, employing Mutsu's extensive personal and official correspondence as well as telegrams and secret British and Japanese documents.
Author: Turan Kayaoğlu Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 0521765919 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 247
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Legal Imperialism examines the important role of nineteenth-century Western extraterritorial courts in non-Western states. These courts, created as a separate legal system for Western expatriates living in Asian and Islamic coutries, developed from the British imperial model, which was founded on ideals of legal positivism. Based on a cross-cultural comparison of the emergence, function, and abolition of these court systems in Japan, the Ottoman Empire, and China, Turan Kayaoglu elaborates a theory of extraterritoriality, comparing the nineteenth-century British example with the post-World War II American legal imperialism. He also provides an explanation for the end of imperial extraterritoriality, arguing that the Western decision to abolish their separate legal systems stemmed from changes in non-Western territories, including Meiji legal reforms, Republican Turkey's legal transformation under Ataturk, and the Guomindang's legal reorganization in China. Ultimately, his research provides an innovative basis for understanding the assertion of legal authority by Western powers on foreign soil and the influence of such assertion on ideas about sovereignty.
Author: Alexander Siebold Publisher: Theclassics.Us ISBN: 9781230230887 Category : Languages : en Pages : 24
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 edition. Excerpt: ... JAPAN'S ACCESSION Up to a year or two ago the public law of Europe, in accordance with its historical origin, only found complete application among the Christian States of the world. As for the nonChristian countries, on the other hand, they had only been granted the benefit of this law, in a greater or less degree, according to the measure of their civilisation. Even the entry of the Sublime Porte into the European fellowship and comity of nations carried with it the enjoyment of the public law of Europe in but a restricted sense; and even at the present time Turkey is denied the exercise of an important sovereign right, namely that of jurisdiction over aliens, seeing that foreigners still continue subject to their own consular courts. Moreover, the Powers have reserved to themselves the exercise of other ruling rights in the Ottoman dominions, including those of postal administration; while their subjects also enjoy immunity from taxation and other exterritorial privileges. It was by Appendix III. of the Treaty of Paris, date 30th March 1856, that the Sublime Porte was admitted to the comity of European nations.1 But this formal reception of the Sublime Porte into the fellowship of the Powers carried with it only a theoretical value, as already remarked, seeing that the Porte could not see its way, by the introduction of opportune reforms, to adapt the Turkish State to the modern Christian standard, and thus, on the ground of this result, to make positive claim to the benefits of the European law of nations. Its chief difficulty consisted in the fact that in Turkey, no less than in the other Mohamedan States, the rulers are not in a position to make headway against the dominant religion, which is hostile to all progress; and as those...
Author: Alexander Von Siebold
Author: Alexander von Siebold
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