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Japan at the World's Columbian Exposition

By 1893, Japan had participated in a number of international expositions. It was in Chicago, though, where the Meiji government made a concerted effort to sway international opinion in favor of revising the "Unequal Treaties" that had been negotiated under duress; domestically, these agreements which ceded tariff autonomy and local judicial authority comprised an assault on Japan's national sovereignty. ....


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