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The Sino-Japanese Friendship and Trade Treaty (; ) was the first treaty between
Japan
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and
Qing
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China
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. It was signed on 13 September 1871 in
Tientsin
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by
Date Munenari __NOTOC__
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Early life
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and
Plenipotentiary
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Li Hongzhang
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.
The treaty guaranteed the judiciary rights of Consuls, and fixed trade tariffs between the two countries.
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The treaty was ratified in the spring of 1873 and was applied until the First Sino-Japanese War
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, which led to a renegotiation with the Treaty of Shimonoseki
The , also known as the Treaty of Maguan () in China and in the period before and during World War II in Japan, was a treaty signed at the , Shimonoseki, Japan on April 17, 1895, between the Empire of Japan and Qing China, ending the Firs ...
.
See also
*People's Republic of China–Japan relations
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China–Japan treaties
1871 treaties
Treaties of the Qing dynasty
Treaties of the Empire of Japan