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The Early Diplomatic Relations between the United States and Japan, 1853-1865

1918; Oxford University Press; Volume: 23; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.2307/1835319

1937-5239

F. W. Williams, Payson J. Treat,

Chinese history and philosophy

sity afforded an opportunity to organize the first part of a more extensive study in which I have been en gaged for a number of years.It is my hope to com plete eventually a survey of the whole period of Japa nese-American diplomatic relations.The present lec tured take up the story with the beginnings of American intercourse, and continue it through the negotiation of the Perry and Harris treaties, into the period when, because of the Mikado s refusal to approve of the commercial conventions, the foreign relations of Japan became apparently inextricably involved with the tur bulent domestic politics of that revolutionary era.The narrative ends with the Mikado s sanction of the treaties I m 1865, [one of the most important of all the events which occurred in the period between the real opening of Japan in 1859 and the war of the restora tion in 1868.It is my pleasant duty to acknowledge here the grati tude owed to the friends and colleagues, in America and in Japan, who have given help and encouragement in these investigations.Their very number precludes individual mention.I cannot, however, fail to express