"Coercion in Japan": A Historical Footnote

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  • Ardath W Burks Rutgers University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14713/jrul.v15i2.1301

Keywords:

William Elliot Griffis, Japan, US-Japan relations

Abstract

Burks reveals the background of efforts in the last nineteenth century to revise the "unequal treaty status" of Japan.  He basis his story on a complete file of clippings and letters concerning an incident in 1887-88 from the William Elliot Griffis Papers at Rutgers. This folio is of historic interest because it sheds new light on very delicate Japanese-American diplomatic relations at the time.

Author Biography

Ardath W Burks, Rutgers University

Rutgers University Libraries

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Published

2012-04-25

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