eprintid: 11532 rev_number: 5 eprint_status: archive userid: 1 dir: disk0/00/01/15/32 datestamp: 2011-01-13 13:34:52 lastmod: 2024-04-05 22:23:21 status_changed: 2012-08-16 08:21:09 type: article metadata_visibility: show creators_name: Howland, Douglas title: Japanese Neutrality in the Nineteenth Century: International Law and Transcultural Process ispublished: pub subjects: ddc-950 divisions: i-719000 keywords: History; Law; Cultural Studies, neutrality, law, translation abstract: An international and transcultural process, the history of Japanese neutrality in the nineteenth century is marked by changing ideas of the international laws of war and the rights of neutrals among the western powers.  The essay explores three points at which Japan's international history intersected with these developments in the meaning and practice of neutrality: the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, the Sino-French conflict of 1884, and the Spanish-American War of 1898.  Japan's working out a position of neutrality turns out to be one of many international and shifting attempts to construct neutrality in the nineteenth century. abstract_translated_lang: ger date: 2010 date_type: published id_scheme: ojs official_url: https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/transcultural/article/view/1927 ppn_swb: 1405903511 own_urn: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-opus-115326 language: eng bibsort: HOWLANDDOUJAPANESENE2010 full_text_status: none publication: Transcultural Studies volume: 1 pagerange: 14-37 citation: Howland, Douglas (2010) Japanese Neutrality in the Nineteenth Century: International Law and Transcultural Process. Transcultural Studies, 1. pp. 14-37.