Treaty of Amity and Commerce between France and Japan

Signature of the First Franco-Japanese treaty in 1858 in Edo.

shōgun

, February 4, 1860.

shōgun

in 1860. He is accompanied by Father Mermet-Cachon.

The Treaty of Amity and Commerce between France and Japan (Japanese: 日仏修好通商条約) (1858) opened diplomatic relations and trade between the two counties.

Description

The treaty was signed in

Unequal Treaties

were:

exchange of diplomatic agents.
Niigata, and Yokohama
’s opening to foreign trade as ports.

ability of foreign citizens to live and trade at will in those ports (only opium trade was prohibited).
a system of extraterritoriality that provided for the subjugation of foreign residents to the laws of their own consular courts instead of the Japanese law system.
fixed low import-export duties, subject to international control, thus depriving the Japanese government control of foreign trade and protection of national industries (the rate would go as low as 5% in the 1860s.)

In 1859, Gustave Duchesne de Bellecourt arrived and became the first French representative in Japan.^[1]^[3] A French Consulate was opened that year at the Temple of Saikai-ji, in Mita, Edo,^[3] at the same time as an American Consulate was established at the Temple of Zenpuku-ji, and a British Consulate at the Temple of Tōzen-ji.

The ratified Treaty was brought to the

shōgun

by Duchesne de Bellecourt, on February 4, 1860.

Notes

^ ^a ^b Polak 2001, p. 29
^ Auslin, p. 1
^ ^a ^b Omoto, p. 23

References

ISBN 978-0-674-01521-0; OCLC 56493769

Halleck, Henry Wager. (1861). International law: or, Rules regulating the intercourse of states in peace and war New York: D. Van Nostrand. OCLC 852699

Omoto Keiko, Marcouin Francis (1990) Quand le Japon s'ouvrit au monde (in French) Gallimard, Paris,
ISBN 2-07-076084-7

Hachette

Fujin Gahōsha (アシェット婦人画報社).

__________. (2002). 絹と光: 知られざる日仏交流100年の歴史 (江戶時代-1950年代) Kinu to hikari: shirarezaru Nichi-Futsu kōryū 100-nen no rekishi (Edo jidai–1950-nendai). Tokyo: Ashetto Fujin Gahōsha, 2002.
OCLC 50875162

[Polak_2001,_p.29-1] Polak 2001, p. 29

[2] Auslin, p. 1

[Omoto,_p.23-3] Omoto, p. 23

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