Due to the extraterritoriality enforced by unequal treaties, legal disputes involving Westerners were subject to judgment by their consulates.
32.
The Japanese chafed under the " unequal treaty system " which characterized Asian and western relations during this period.
33.
Abe was instrumental in the eventual signing of the Convention of Kanagawa in 1854, and other unequal treaties shortly afterwards.
34.
In 1893, he became Japanese ambassador to France and negotiated the revision of the unequal treaties between France and Japan.
35.
The delegation met with President Ulysses S . Grant, but was unsuccessful in its goal of revising the unequal treaties.
36.
One year later, the war ended with the defeat of the Tokugawa and the renegotiation of the " unequal treaties ".
37.
At the time, the Japanese government's jurisdiction over foreigners in Japan was limited by the extraterritoriality provisions of the unequal treaties.
38.
Soon after this Ii negotiated a number of similar unequal treaties with the Dutch, the Russians, the British and the French.
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In November 1878, Yoshihara accompanied Matsukata Masayoshi and Aoki Shuzo to Paris in another unsuccessful attempt at revision of the unequal treaties.
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In the early 19th century, Britain's victory over Qing China in the First Opium War forced China to sign an unequal treaty.
