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The Treaty of Amity and Commerce between Japan and the United States (日米修好通商条約, Nichibei Shūkō Tsūshō Jōyaku), also called the Harris Treaty was a treaty signed between the United States and Tokugawa Shogunate, which opened the ports of Kanagawa and four other Japanese cities to trade and granted extraterritoriality to ...
The American government felt that its 1911 commercial treaty with Japan was not affording an appropriate level of protection to US commerce in areas within or occupied by Japan. Simultaneously, Japan's position under the treaty, as a most favoured nation, legally prevented the adoption of retaliatory measures against Japanese commerce. The ...
The U.S. Senate ratified the commercial treaty that had been signed earlier in the week with Japan. [44] [52] Pope Pius X declared that the harem skirt, a new fashion out of Paris, received his strong disapproval. The statement, published in the Osservatore Romano, also said that wearers of the skirt would be excluded from Catholic churches. [53]
Both the Japanese public and the political perception of American antagonism began in the 1890s. The American acquisition of Pacific colonies near Japan and its brokering of the end of the Russo-Japanese War via the Treaty of Portsmouth, which left neither belligerent, particularly Japan, satisfied, left a lasting general impression that the United States was inappropriately foisting itself ...
March 31: The Convention of Kanagawa, the first treaty between the United States and Japan, is signed by Perry and the Tokugawa shogunate. The treaty opens up two Japanese ports, Shimoda and Hakodate, for trade to American ships. [8] 1856: July: Pierce names Townsend Harris as the first American diplomat to serve as Consul General to Japan. [10]
The Anglo-Japanese Treaty of Commerce and Navigation (日英通商航海条約, Nichi-Ei Tsūshō Kōkai Jōyaku) signed by Britain and Japan, on 16 July 1894, was a breakthrough agreement; it heralded the end of the unequal treaties and the system of extraterritoriality in Japan. The treaty came into force on 17 July 1899 and lasted until 26 ...
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Treaty between Thailand and Japan (1940) Treaty for the Limitation of Naval Armament; Treaty of Friendship, Commerce and Navigation between Austria-Hungary and Japan; Treaty of Paris (1920) Treaty of Portsmouth; Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye (1919) Treaty of Shimonoseki; Treaty of Trianon; Tripartite Pact; Twenty-One Demands