Sino-Japanese Friendship and Trade Treaty

The Sino-Japanese Friendship and Trade Treaty (Nisshin shukō jōki (日清修好条規^?)) was the first treaty between Japan and China It was signed on 13 September 1871 in Tientsin by Date Munenari and Plenipotentiary Li Hongzhang.^[1]

The treaty guaranteed the judiciary rights of Consuls, and fixed trade tariffs between the two countries.^[1]

The treaty was ratified in 1873 and was applied until the First Sino-Japanese War, which led to a renegotiation with the Treaty of Shimonoseki.

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Treaties of Japan

Bakumatsu period (1854-1868)	Japan-US Treaty of Peace and Amity (1854) · Anglo-Japanese Friendship Treaty (1854) · Treaty of Commerce and Navigation between Japan and Russia (1855) · Treaty of Amity and Commerce (United States – Japan) (1858) · Treaty of Amity and Commerce between the Netherlands and Japan (1858) · Treaty of Amity and Commerce between Russia and Japan (1858) · Anglo-Japanese Treaty of Amity and Commerce (1858) · Treaty of Amity and Commerce between France and Japan (1858)

Meiji period (1868-1912)	Sino-Japanese Friendship and Trade Treaty (1871) · Treaty of Saint Petersburg (1875) · Japan–Korea Treaty of 1876 · Anglo-Japanese Treaty of Commerce and Navigation (1894) · Japan-China Peace Treaty (1895) · Treaty of Friendship, Commerce and Navigation between Brazil and Japan (1895) · Anglo-Japanese Alliance (1902) · Japan-Russia Treaty of Peace (1905) · Japan-Korea Annexation Treaty (1910)

From World War I to World War II (1912-1945)	Treaty of Versailles (1919) · Washington Naval Treaty (1922) · Japan-Manchukuo Protocol (1932) · Anti-Comintern Pact (1936) · Tripartite Pact (1940) · Soviet–Japanese Neutrality Pact (1941) · Japanese Instrument of Surrender (1945)

During Cold War (1945-1989)	Security Treaty Between the United States and Japan (1951) · Treaty of San Francisco (1951) · Sino-Japanese Peace Treaty (1951) · Japan-US Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security (1960)