Person1844 – 1897
Mutsu Munemitsu
Japanese foreign minister (1892–1896) who ended extraterritoriality through treaty revision with Britain and steered the Sino-Japanese War and the Treaty of Shimonoseki
Where they went
2 related events
- 1
Japan signed a new treaty with Britain abolishing consular jurisdiction (extraterritoriality). In 1911 it regained tariff autonomy as well, completing the revision of the unequal treaties.
- 2
The treaty that ended the Sino-Japanese War gave Japan Taiwan and a huge indemnity, but the Triple Intervention of Russia, Germany and France forced it to return the Liaodong Peninsula. The powers then scrambled to lease Chinese territory.
People who appear alongside
- Li Hongzhang1823 – 1901
Qing viceroy who steered policy toward Korea after 1882 and signed the Tianjin Convention and the Treaty of Shimonoseki with Itō Hirobumi
- Itō Hirobumi1841 – 1909
First prime minister of Japan who forced the 1905 protectorate treaty and became the first Resident-General; shot by Ahn Jung-geun at Harbin
Themes this person appears in
- The Opening of East Asia1839 – 1901
From the Opium War to the Boxer Protocol — sixty years in which China, Japan and Korea, forced open by Western gunboats, each tried to reform and went separate ways