This two–volume collection, supported by an in-depth introduction that addresses origins, actuality, endgame and afterlife, brings together for the first time contemporary documentation and more recent scholarship to give a broad picture of Japan’s Treaty Ports and their inhabitants at work and play in the second half of the nineteenth century. The material selected, shows how the ports’ existence and the Japanese struggle to end their special status, impacted on many aspects of modern Japan beyond their primary role as trading stations. Compared with their counterparts in China, the Japanese treaty ports cast a small shadow. They were far fewer – only four really mattered – and lasted for just under fifty years, while the Chinese ports made their centenary. Yet the Japanese ports were important. The thriving modern cities of Yokohama and Kobe had their origins as treaty ports. Nagasaki, a major centre of foreign trade since at least the sixteenth century, may not have owed so much to its treaty-port status, but it was a factor in its modern development.

Jim Hoare is a former Research Counsellor and Head of the North Asia and Pacific Research Group at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO). He served in the British Embassies in Seoul (1981-1985), Beijing (1988-1991) and Pyongyang (2001-2002). He has published widely on Korea.

VOLUME 1: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES

Acknowledgements

Map of Japan’s open ports and cities

List of Plates

Introduction and Restrospective

1. Convention between Great Britain and Japan 1854

2. Treaty of Amity and Commerce, 1858

3. Treaty of Commerce and Navigation between Great Britain and Japan,

1894

4. Treaty of Friendship, Commerce and Navigation between the

Austro-Hungarian Monarchy and Empire of Japan, 1869

5. Land Regulations, etc.

6. That ‘Naughty Yankee Boy’: Edward H. House and Meiji Japan’s

Struggle for Equality

7. Early Western Architecture in Japan’

8. Japan and the Western Powers

9. The Bund: Littoral Space of Empire in the Treaty Ports

of East Asia

10. Western Entrepreneurs and the Opening of Japanese Ports

11. The First Women Religious in Japan: Mother Saint Mathilde

Raclot and the French Connection

12. Gentlemanly Capitalism and the Club: Expatriate Social Networks

in Meiji Kobe

13. Imposed Efficiency of the Treaty Ports: Japanese Industrialization

and Western Imperialist Institutions

14. The Revision of Japan’s Early Commercial Treaties

15. Lafcadio Hearn on Foreign Settlements

16. An Englishman’s Right to Hunt: Territorial Sovereignty and

Extraterritorial Privilege in Japan

17. ‘Residential Rhymes: Sympathetically Dedicated to

Foreigners in Japan’

18. Parkes (Sir Harry)

9. Treaties with Foreign Powers

20. Kokusai Kekkon and Meiji Japan

21. What the Passport Requires

22. All Things to All Men

23. Two Remarkable Australians of Old Yokohama,

24. Tourist Guide

25. Japan Reverses the Unequal Treaties: The Anglo-Japanese

Commercial Treaty of 1894

26. Extraterritoriality in Japan, 1858–1899

27. The Chinese in the Japanese Treaty Ports, 1858–1899:

The Unknown Majority

28. The Stage Is the World: Theatrical and Musical Entertainment

in Three Japanese Treaty Ports

29. ‘Shades of the Past’: The Introduction of Baseball into Japan

30. ‘Competitors with the English sporting men’. Civilization,

Enlightenment and Horse Racing: Anglo-Japanese Relations, 1860–2010.

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HAKODATE

31. Dr. John Batchelor, British Scholar and Friend of the Natives of

Hokkaido

32. Thomas Wright Blakiston: The Blakiston Line

33. Hakodadi

34. The Murder of Ludwig Haber

35. Hokkaido (Ezo): Some Impressions of British Visitors (1854–1873),

36. Departure from Japan

37. Mr. Enslie’s Grievances: The Consul, the Ainu and the Bones

KOBE

38. History of Kobe

39. Mr. Van Valkenburgh to Mr. Seward

40. A Swede in Meiji Japan: Herman Trotzig (1832–1919)

NAGASAKI

41. Nagasaki: The Treaty Ports of China and Japan

42. British Influence in the Foreign Settlement at Nagasaki

43. City of Nagasaki: Chinese in Nagasaki, 1859–60



44. Italian Influence in the ‘Naples of Japan’, 1859–1941

45. Thomas Glover of Nagasaki

YOKOHAMA

46. ‘Yokuhama’, in Ten Weeks in Japan, 1861,

47. Mr. Van Valkenburgh, Letter to Mr. Seward

48. The Vocabulary of the Japanese Ports Lingo

49. Treaty Port Attitudes.

50. Yokohama

51. The First Six Months of the Asiatic Society of Japan,

52. Yokohama before the Catastrophe

53. The Gankiro Teahouse and No. 9 in Old Yokohama

54. Life in a Buddhist Temple at Kanagawa

55. The Story of Yokohama Union Church, 1872–1923

56. Yokohama in 1872: A rambling account of the community in which

the Asiatic Society of Japan was founded.

57. Revised and Enlarged Edition of Exercises in the Yokohama Dialect,

58. British Consuls and British Merchants,

59. Yokohama Ballads, c.1890, 1–8 342

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