Treaty Revision in the State Building Process of Meiji Japan

日本明治维新条约的修订，一直被视为一段不断寻求恢复相当一部分主权的历史，例如关税自主或放弃领事管辖权。然而，这一研究项目通过对谈判过程的细致追踪，澄清了修改始于更符合当时日本能力的要求，即对条约实践的部分改进。谈判失败后，面对国内民族主义的抵制，日本政府迫不及待地恢复了全部管辖权，并进行了一些补偿。今天，我们生活在各种重要的条约之下。为了明智地实践或修改它们，这个项目回到了这样的生活的起源，并重建了它的历史经验。

Treaty Revision of Meiji Japan has been regarded as a history of the persistent quest for the restoration of a significant portion of sovereignty, such as tariff autonomy or abandonment of consular jurisdiction. This research project, however, clarifies, through elaborately tracing the process of negotiation, that the revision started with a demand more fitted to the capability of Japan at that time, the partial improvement of the practice of treaties. As this negotiation failed, Japanese government hastened to the restoration of whole jurisdiction with some compensations, which faced the repulsions of domestic nationalism. Today, we live under various important treaties. To wisely practice them or revise them, this project goes back to the origin of such lives and reconstructs its historical experience.