ABSTRACT
The action of England had been different from the action of the three Continental Powers. England had declined to be associated with the intervention, although during the period of the war Japan had frankly warned Japan off all China treaty ports, declaring that Japan would not tolerate interference with her trade. By 1895, therefore, Japan had certain very clear-cut ideas on international politics. The short-sightedness of Japanese policy, therefore, has been the ally of republicanism in the Far East, the sponsor of Western influence. The enemy of the peace and dignity of the Japanese Imperial House, which is to-day swaying ominously under the high winds of democratic revolt. The Imperial Japanese Government engages that in regard to the leased territory, as well as in matters of railway construction and exploitation, they will as far as circumstances permit conform to the original agreements concluded between China and Russia.
