Treaty Revision in the State Building Process of Meiji Japan

明治日本修约被认为是一部持续追求恢复相当一部分主权的历史，例如关税自治或放弃领事管辖权。然而，本研究项目通过详细追踪谈判过程，澄清了修订始于一种更适合当时日本能力的要求，即部分改进条约的实践。谈判失败后，日本政府以一定补偿的方式迅速恢复了整个管辖权，遭到了国内民族主义的强烈反对。今天，我们生活在各种重要条约之下。为了明智地实践或修正它们，这个项目回到了这些生活的起源，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.