French Policy Towards the Bakufu and Meiji Japan 1854-95Little serious work has been done on the policies towards Japan of countries other than the US or Britain in the seminal Meiji period. This study looks to fill this gap by investigating French policy from the opening of Japan to the Japanese triumph in the Sino-Japanese war. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The Struggle to Enforce the Treaties 185964 | 23 |
Léon Roches and French Support of the Bakufu | 48 |
France and the Consolidation of the Meiji Government | 73 |
France and the Emergence of Japanese Foreign Policy | 110 |
France and the Revision of the Unequal Treaties | 143 |
The Decline of French Influence 188595 | 177 |
Common terms and phrases
accepted alliance April attitude August Bakufu Balloy Berthemy Boissonade Britain British C.C.Tokyo C.C.Yédo C.P.Japon Challemel-Lacour Chanoine chargé d'affaires China Chinese Choshu Christians claim commercial concern concessions daimyo Decazes December diplomacy dispatch Drouyn de Lhuys Europe European exports fact favour February foreign minister France France's Franco-Japanese French diplomats French government French minister French policy Frenchmen Gaiko Geofroy government's Harmand to Hanotaux Ibid important influence Inoue Inoue Kaoru interest Ito Hirobumi Iwakura January Japan Japanese art Japanese foreign Japanese government Japon July June Korea later leaders Léon Roches M.D.Japon March Meiji government Meiji Restoration Ministry mission missionaries modernization Moniteur des Soies Moustier naval navy negotiations Nihon November October officers Outrey Paris Parkes political position Quai d'Orsay Rémusat Roches to Drouyn samurai Satsuma September shogun Sienkiewicz to Ferry Sienkiewicz to Freycinet silk silkworm telegram Thouvenel Tokugawa Tokyo trade treaty revision Tricou Turenne Viel-Castel Western powers Yokohama Yokosuka