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Foundation studies on international maritime accidents and their compensation negotiations with the foreign governments from the last days of the Tokugawa government until the Meiji era.
Purposes of Studies
From the last days of the Tokugawa government until the Meiji era, when Japan was in the days under the unequal treaty, many maritime accidents occurred between Japanese sailing ships and steamers of foreign nationalities in Japanese territorial waters.
In such accidents, Japan was always on the damaged side. And the details of these accidents and the progress of their compensation negotiations with the foreign governments have not been brought to light until today.
The purposes of this studies are to investigate each accident, to study the progress of the compensation negotiations on these accidents as a whole and to try to position these accidents in Japan Modern History.
Results of Studies
Research studies on historical materials concerned
1. Historical materials owned by the person con
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cerned Jusuke Nagai, owner of Fukumiya-maru
2. Newspaper reports on the accidents Newspaper articles both in nation-wide and local newspapers (Hiroshima, Ehime, Kanagawa, Yamaguchi, etc.)
3. Historical materials kept at the High Marine Accidents Inquiry Agency
4. Historical material Bureau of deplomatic relations of Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Summary of Results of Studies
1. Studies of each maritime accident
* On shipwreck of warship 'Chishima' in the 25th year of Meiji Kaijishi Kenkyu (Historical Studies of Maritime Affairs) No. 42 1985 * On shipwreck of British vessel 'Tibet' in the 20th year of Meiji and its pilotage inquiry Yuge Mercantile Marine College Bulletin No. 9 1987 * On collision between British vessel and Yugao-maru in the 4th year of Meiji Yuge Mercantile Marine College Bulletin No. 9 1987
2. Synthetic studies of maritime accidents
Studies of marine accidents and the negotiations with foreign governments from the last days of Tokugawa government and the Meiji Restration until the days of the Treaty Revision * to be published in the next issues of Kaijishi Kenkyu and Yuge Mercantile Marine College Bulletin Less
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