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Henry Willard Denison

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towards the revision of the unequal treaties and elimination of extraterritoriality. He also wrote legal opinions in defense of the Japanese position in the
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to study law in 1868, but did not graduate before he left for Japan in 1869 while working as a clerk for the Revenue and Customs Department in
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Although the position of foreign adviser was normally for a three- or five-year contract, Denison remained as a legal advisor to the
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in the consulate court. At the time, the Japanese government's jurisdiction over foreigners in Japan was limited by the
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to the Japanese government. He was immediately tasked the providing an explanation on the meaning of the
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In an 1875 letter he indicates he worked in the U.S. Treasury Department from 1864-1869.
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Brief description of Denison's part at the Russo-Japanese peace conference in 1905
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Klaus Schlichtmann, "Japan, Germany and the Idea of the Hague Peace Conferences"
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In 1869, Denison was appointed Vice Consul at the United States Consulate at
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in Tokyo and significantly not in the foreign section of that cemetery.
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Japan's imperial diplomacy: consuls, treaty ports, and war in China, 18
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The practice of diplomacy: its evolution, theory, and administration
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to the United States, and assisted in the drafting of the
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on July 6, attended by the American Ambassador to Japan,
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Foreign advisors to the government in Meiji-period Japan
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American judges of international courts and tribunals
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He was given a 640:Columbia College (New York) alumni 558:Brief biography by Russell Bastedo 14: 253:St. Luke's International Hospital 307: 224:. Denison subsequently assisted 418:, vol. 40, no. 4, (2003) p. 392 236:(1904–1905), he travelled with 123:, and spent his early years in 600:People from Guildhall, Vermont 214:Permanent Court of Arbitration 1: 645:19th-century American lawyers 610:American expatriates in Japan 523:Encyclopedia of Massachusetts 276:Order of the Sacred Treasures 274:(2nd class) in 1895, and the 169:Elements of International Law 635:19th-century American judges 351:being its inaugural holder. 133:George Washington University 183:, until his death in 1914. 666: 650:Burials at Aoyama Cemetery 280:Order of the Chrysanthemum 416:Journal of Peace Research 30: 125:Lancaster, New Hampshire 568:March 17, 2016, at the 427:"Japan Honors Denison" 287:Prime Minister of Japan 272:Order of the Rising Sun 230:Anglo-Japanese Alliance 196:First Sino-Japanese War 127:. He was a graduate of 343:established the chair 263:. His grave is at the 200:Treaty of Shimonoseki 105:Henry Willard Denison 25:Henry Willard Denison 525:. Bibliolife (2009) 485:on February 23, 2015 242:Treaty of Portsmouth 119:Denison was born in 540:. Routledge (1994) 247:Denison suffered a 228:in negotiating the 204:Triple Intervention 152:extraterritoriality 129:Columbia University 595:American diplomats 459:on January 7, 2017 319:. You can help by 234:Russo-Japanese War 154:provisions of the 121:Guildhall, Vermont 60:Guildhall, Vermont 536:Hamilton, Keith. 507:Brooks, Barbara. 479:"Faculty Profile" 349:John Curtis Perry 337: 336: 296:, near Yokohama. 261:George W. 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Guildhall, Vermont
Tokyo
Meiji period
Guildhall, Vermont
Lancaster, New Hampshire
Columbia University
George Washington University
Washington D.C.
Yokohama
public prosecutor
extraterritoriality
unequal treaties
John A. Bingham
foreign advisor
Elements of International Law
international law
Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Ōkuma Shigenobu
Mutsu Munemitsu
First Sino-Japanese War
Treaty of Shimonoseki
Triple Intervention
Itō Hirobumi
Permanent Court of Arbitration
The Hague
Ichiro Motono
Komura Jutaro
Anglo-Japanese Alliance
Russo-Japanese War

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