A Study of Japan-China Tientsin Treaty of 1885

Research Project

Project/Area Number	14520103
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Section	一般
Research Field	Politics
Research Institution	Kumamoto University
Principal Investigator	OHSAWA Hiroaki Kumamoto University, Law, Professor, 法学部, 教授 (70213684)
Project Period (FY)	2002 – 2003
Project Status	Completed (Fiscal Year 2003)
Budget Amount *help	¥2,700,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,700,000) Fiscal Year 2003: ¥1,000,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000) Fiscal Year 2002: ¥1,700,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,700,000)
Keywords	Japan China Tientsin Treaty / Japan-China-Britain concord / 天津条約 / 通商的外交観 / 陰謀史観
Research Abstract	The Japan-China Tientsin Treaty of 1885(so called Ito-Li Convention) is well known in the history of Far Eastern international relations. But the estimation of this treaty is not affirmative. In China, most of researches insist that Tientsin treaty was a fatal mistake for China and beneficial to Japan to invade China and Korea. In Japan, many of researches also insist that Tientsin Treaty was a great great mistake for China and great triumph for Japan. Some of reseaches insist that Tientsin Treaty was a merely provisional and shortly became invalid. Lastly, in korea many reseaches insist that the Tientsin Treaty, it was a only Japan-China treaty on korea, before Japan-China war of 1894-95, was no meaning for Korea. On the contrary, this thesis demonstrate following points. 1st, the Tientsin Treaty was a mark of the establishment of Japan-China-Britain triple concord. 2nd Japan's Claim of Japan-China joint Korean reform intervention derived from the above triple concord. 3rd, but Japan's claim was not acceptable to China and Britain. 4th, therefore China and Britain revaluted that Japan's international concor was a fraud and out break the Japan-China war was a consequences of Japan's conspiracy.