Open AccessInternational Law and its Influence on Diplomacy in the Late Nineteenth Century Japan
Author(s) -
Ōkubo Takeharu
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
mirai
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2531-145X
DOI - 10.5209/mira.64980
Subject(s) - diplomacy , negotiation , treaty , civilization , political science , law , normative , international relations , international law , order (exchange) , economic history , history , politics , finance , economics
In 1853 United States warships led by Commodore Matthew Perry (1794-1858) came to Japan to negotiate a commercial treaty. This event had suddenly thrust late-nineteenth-century Japan into a web of relations with the Western nations, and as a result, European international law was a topic of particularly urgent concern including some normative philosophical questions: What is Civilization? What are the rules in international relations? What are the differences with the existing order in East Asia?