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Korea, after the first one in 1587 had failed ) for nearly two years. After
Hideyoshi renewed his demands and pushed Yoshitoshi to deliver his message, Yoshitoshi, rather than delivering Hideyoshi's demands, instead reduced the visit to the Korean court to a campaign to better relations between the two countries, and was able to secure a Korean diplomatic mission to Japan, which arrived in 1590. The message the Korean envoys received from Hideyoshi, redrafted as requested on the grounds that it was too discourteous, invited Korea to submit to Japan and join in a war against China.
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would never agree to such a request, Sō Yoshitoshi sent a forged letter and a group of criminals instead; the great need to expel the Ming soldiers pushed Joseon into accepting and to send an emissary in 1608. The result was a return of Joseon prisoners and the restoration of diplomatic and trade relations between the two countries.
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Yoshitoshi's house, having special trading privileges with Korea (Tsushima at the time was the single checkpoint for all
Japanese ships going to Korea), had a vested interest in preventing conflict between Korea and Japan, and Yoshitoshi delayed talks (he was assigned to Hideyoshi's second mission to
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In the continuation of the diplomatic talks toward peaceful relations, Joseon in 1606 expanded its conditions and demanded that the shogun write a formal letter requesting peace, and to extradite the
Japanese soldiers who had defiled the Joseon Royal Tombs near Hanseong. Realizing that the Shogunate
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As Joseon was a tributary state and ally of Ming China, King Seonjo refused safe passage of
Japanese troops through Korea to invade China; Hideyoshi then planned a military invasion of Korea as the first step to achieving his ultimate goal of conquering China. Yoshitoshi played a crucial role in the
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China as his ultimate goal. (Practical reasons, such as the greatly-expanded warrior class and the large number of armed forces it commanded immediately after
Hideyoshi's unification of Japan, also played a larger role in Hideyoshi's reasoning; these forces actually posed a potential threat to
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confirmed the Sō clan possession of
Tsushima. Yoshitoshi thus entered Hideyoshi's service; among the first major tasks he undertook on behalf of Hideyoshi was to organizing negotiations with Korea as Hideyoshi's representative. Hideyoshi, in order to fulfill the ambitions of his deceased lord
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Japan's internal stability and possibly to
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