The Anglo-Japanese Treaty of Amity and Commerce was signed on August 26, 1858, by Lord Elgin for Britain and representatives of the Tokugawa shogunate, and ratified between Queen Victoria and the Tycoon of Japan on July 11, 1859. It opened the ports of Hakodate, Kanagawa and Nagasaki to British trade from July 1859, with Hyogo to follow in 1863, allowed a British representative to reside in Edo, and granted British subjects the right to travel up to 25 miles from each open port. Like other agreements Western powers imposed on Japan in this period, it is classed as an unequal treaty because it gave Britain extraterritorial jurisdiction over its own subjects within Japan.
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The Anglo-Japanese Treaty of Amity and Commerce was signed on August 26, 1858, by Lord Elgin for Britain and representatives of the Tokugawa shogunate, and ratified between Queen Victoria and the Tycoon of Japan on July 11, 1859.
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The Anglo-Japanese Treaty of Amity and Commerce (日英修好通商条約, Nichi-Ei Shūkō Tsūshō Jōyaku; The Treaty of Peace, Friendship and Commerce, between Queen Victoria and the tycoon of Japan) was signed on 26 August 1858 by Lord Elgin and the then representatives of the Japanese government (the Tokugawa shogunate), and was ratified between Queen Victoria and the Tycoon of Japan at Yedo on 11 July 1859.
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