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British Japan Consular Service

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who were expected to learn Japanese. In the early years almost all dealings with Japanese officials were in Japanese and British consular officials had a high standard in the spoken and written language. This declined over time as more Japanese officials learnt English.
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was created in Yokohama which had first instance jurisdiction in Kanagawa and appellate jurisdiction from other consular courts in Japan. Appeals from the Court for Japan lay to Supreme Court in Shanghai.
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The Consular Service was established with officials who were expected to serve their entire careers in Japan. The entry-level position was as
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Ian Ruxton, (ed), The Semi-official Letters of British Envoy Sir Ernest Satow from Japan and China (1895-1906), p153-4.
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The following judges were based in Yokohama from 1871 to 1877 before the establishment of the
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Britain had a functioning consular service in Japan from 1859 after the signing of the 1858
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over British subjects in Japan. Consular officials sat as judges in
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Richard Chang, The Justice of Western Consular Courts in Japan.
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Richard Chang, The Justice of Western Consular Court in Japan
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I Nish, Britain and Japan, Biographical Portraits, p99
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Britain & Japan: Biographical Portraits, Volume II
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also heard cases in Japan when traveling on circuit.
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Yokohama

Yokohama
Yokohama Archives of History
Anglo-Japanese Treaty of Amity and Commerce
James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin
Tokugawa Shogunate
invaded the British colonial empire
United Kingdom
student interpreter
extraterritorial jurisdiction
consular courts
treaty ports
Supreme Court of Hong Kong
British Supreme Court for China and Japan
Shanghai
Yokohama
British Supreme Court for China and Japan
British Court for Japan
Rutherford Alcock
William George Aston
Henry Bonar
James Joseph Enslie
Abel Gower
John Harington Gubbins
John Carey Hall
Joseph Henry Longford
Harry Smith Parkes
Frank Playfair

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