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the Japanese Government and the Representatives at Jokio
of
the
Chief towers of Europe and America
olbost fair and unprejudiced ready to admit that the
are
men
"extra-territorial system" (as it is called), by which Europeans and
Americans
ricand are now
έ
subject only
to their own laws and to the authority of their own Ministers and Consuls, should be largely -modified forthwith and cannot be permanently maintained, now that the Japanese Government have.
adopted
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adopted Codes, and established an Administration of Justice founded
on
European modele. The Japanese have been long desirous to remove the restrictions which now confine
foreign merchants and residents to the sixe
six
Treaty Ports and to open
the entire country to them, on condition that they will engage to obey the laws, and to be subject to the tribunals of Japan.. Perhaps, the main practical difficulty in arriving at a fair settlement, arises
ses
from the fact
that