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France–Japan relations

Index France–Japan relations

The history of relations between France and Japan goes back to the early 17th century, when a Japanese samurai and ambassador on his way to Rome landed for a few days in Saint-Tropez and created a sensation. [1]

158 relations: Air France, Anglo-Japanese Friendship Treaty, Anime, Artistic inspiration, Asakusa, Battle of Hakodate, Biplane, Christian Polak, Christianity, Concorde, Courtesy call, Crimean War, Daft Punk, Date Masamune, Dejima, Djibouti, Dominican Order, Dutch East India Company, Edo, Enomoto Takeaki, Exposition Universelle (1867), First Japanese Embassy to Europe (1862), First Sino-Japanese War, Foreign cemeteries in Japan, Foreign government advisors in Meiji Japan, Foreign relations of Japan, François Caron, France, France–Asia relations, Franco-Japanese Treaty of 1907, French corvette Dupleix (1861), French East India Company, French Indochina, French language, French military mission to Japan (1867–68), French military mission to Japan (1872–80), French military mission to Japan (1884–89), French military mission to Japan (1918–19), Fukuzawa Yukichi, George Psalmanazar, Ginza, Guangzhouwan, Guillaume Courtet, Gustave Boissonade, Gustave Duchesne de Bellecourt, Hakodate, Hasekura Tsunenaga, Hendrik Doeff, Henri Farman, Ho Chi Minh City, ..., Hokkaido, Huguenots, Ichigaya, Ikuno, Hyōgo, Immaculate Heart of Mary, Imperial Japanese Army Academy, Imperial Japanese Navy, Impressionism, Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem, Iron Chef, ISIL beheading incidents, Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, Jacquard loom, Jacques Chirac, Japan, Japanese art, Japanese coup d'état in French Indochina, Japanese invasion of French Indochina, Japanese war crimes, Japanophile, Japonism, Jean Francisque Coignet, Jean-Baptiste Cécille, Jean-Baptiste Louis Gros, Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse, JET Programme, Jules Brunet, Julie Dreyfus, Kenzō Takada, Kobe, Kobe Incident, Kure Naval Arsenal, Kuril Islands, Kyoto, Laurent Fabius, Léon Roches, Léonce Verny, Leiji Matsumoto, Louis Christophe François Hachette, Louis-Émile Bertin, Lyon, Madagascar, Manga, Matthew C. Perry, Meiji period, Messageries Maritimes, Michael Ferrier, Middle Ages, Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Nagasaki, Napoleon, Netherlands, Nihonbashi, Nishijin, Niten Ichi Ryu Memorial, Nuclear power, Okayama Domain, Okinawa Prefecture, Orano, Osaka, Panhard, Paris, Paris Peace Conference, 1919, Paris syndrome, Paul Claudel, Pierre Barouh, Prime Minister of Japan, Racial equality, Renaissance, Rome, Russian-American Company, Ryukyu Islands, Saint-Tropez, Sakai, Sakai incident, Sakhalin, Sakichi Toyoda, Sakoku, Sasebo Naval Arsenal, Satsuma Domain, Second Japanese Embassy to Europe (1863), Shōgun, Shibata Takenaka, Shimbashi Station, Shimonoseki Campaign, Shinzō Abe, Silk, Taiwan, Tetsumi Kudo, Tokugawa Iemochi, Tokugawa shogunate, Tomioka, Gunma, Toyota, Tram, Treaty of Amity and Commerce between France and Japan, Treaty of Paris (1856), Tsuguharu Foujita, Turkey, Ueno, Ueno Station, Uganda, Urup, Vichy France, World war, Yokohama, Yokosuka Naval Arsenal, Yoshitoshi Tokugawa. Expand index (108 more) »

Air France

Air France (formally Société Air France, S.A.), stylized as AIRFRANCE, is the French flag carrier headquartered in Tremblay-en-France.

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Anglo-Japanese Friendship Treaty

The was the first treaty between the United Kingdom and the Empire of Japan, then under the administration of the Tokugawa shogunate.

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Anime

Anime is a style of hand-drawn and computer animation originating in, and commonly associated with, Japan.

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Artistic inspiration

Inspiration (from the Latin inspirare, meaning "to breathe into") is an unconscious burst of creativity in a literary, musical, or other artistic endeavour.

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Asakusa

is a district in Taitō, Tokyo, Japan, famous for the Sensō-ji, a Buddhist temple dedicated to the bodhisattva Kannon.

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Battle of Hakodate

The was fought in Japan from December 4, 1868 to June 27, 1869, between the remnants of the Tokugawa shogunate army, consolidated into the armed forces of the rebel Ezo Republic, and the armies of the newly formed Imperial government (composed mainly of forces of the Chōshū and the Satsuma domains).

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Biplane

A biplane is a fixed-wing aircraft with two main wings stacked one above the other.

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Christian Polak

Christian Philippe Polak (born August 1950) is a French businessman and author who has published several books on 19th-century Franco-Japanese relations; one Le Monde book review called him "the best specialist on this question".

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Christianity

ChristianityFrom Ancient Greek Χριστός Khristós (Latinized as Christus), translating Hebrew מָשִׁיחַ, Māšîăḥ, meaning "the anointed one", with the Latin suffixes -ian and -itas.

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Concorde

The Aérospatiale/BAC Concorde is a British-French turbojet-powered supersonic passenger airliner that was operated from 1976 until 2003.

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Courtesy call

A courtesy call is a call or visit made out of politeness.

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Crimean War

The Crimean War (or translation) was a military conflict fought from October 1853 to February 1856 in which the Russian Empire lost to an alliance of the Ottoman Empire, France, Britain and Sardinia.

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Daft Punk

Daft Punk are a French electronic music duo from Paris formed in 1993 by Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo and Thomas Bangalter.

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Date Masamune

was a regional ruler of Japan's Azuchi–Momoyama period through early Edo period.

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Dejima

, in old Western documents Latinised as Deshima, Decima, Desjima, Dezima, Disma, or Disima, was a Dutch trading post notable for being the single place of direct trade and exchange between Japan and the outside world during the Edo period. It was a small fan-shaped artificial island formed by digging a canal through a small peninsula in the bay of Nagasaki in 1634 by local merchants. Dejima was built to constrain foreign traders. Originally built to house Portuguese traders, it was used by the Dutch as a trading post from 1641 until 1853. Covering an area of or, it was later integrated into the city through the process of land reclamation. In 1922, the "Dejima Dutch Trading Post" was designated a Japanese national historic site.

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Djibouti

Djibouti (جيبوتي, Djibouti, Jabuuti, Gabuuti), officially the Republic of Djibouti, is a country located in the Horn of Africa.

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Dominican Order

The Order of Preachers (Ordo Praedicatorum, postnominal abbreviation OP), also known as the Dominican Order, is a mendicant Catholic religious order founded by the Spanish priest Dominic of Caleruega in France, approved by Pope Honorius III via the Papal bull Religiosam vitam on 22 December 1216.

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Dutch East India Company

The United East India Company, sometimes known as the United East Indies Company (Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie; or Verenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie in modern spelling; abbreviated to VOC), better known to the English-speaking world as the Dutch East India Company or sometimes as the Dutch East Indies Company, was a multinational corporation that was founded in 1602 from a government-backed consolidation of several rival Dutch trading companies.

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Edo

, also romanized as Jedo, Yedo or Yeddo, is the former name of Tokyo.

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Enomoto Takeaki

Viscount was a Japanese samurai and admiral of the Tokugawa navy of Bakumatsu-period Japan, who remained faithful to the Tokugawa shogunate and fought against the new Meiji government until the end of the Boshin War.

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Exposition Universelle (1867)

The International Exposition of 1867 (Exposition universelle de 1867), was the second world's fair to be held in Paris, from 1 April to 3 November 1867.

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First Japanese Embassy to Europe (1862)

The First Japanese Embassy to Europe (Japanese:第1回遣欧使節, also 開市開港延期交渉使節団) was sent to Europe by the Tokugawa shogunate in 1862.

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First Sino-Japanese War

The First Sino-Japanese War (25 July 1894 – 17 April 1895) was fought between Qing dynasty of China and Empire of Japan, primarily for influence over Joseon.

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Foreign cemeteries in Japan

in Japan are chiefly located in Tokyo and at the former treaty ports of Kobe, Hakodate, Nagasaki, and Yokohama.

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Foreign government advisors in Meiji Japan

The foreign government advisors in Meiji Japan, known in Japanese as oyatoi gaikokujin (Kyūjitai: 御雇ひ外國人, Shinjitai: 御雇い外国人, "hired foreigners"), were those foreign advisors hired by the Japanese government for their specialized knowledge to assist in the modernization of Japan at the end of the Bakufu and during the Meiji period.

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Foreign relations of Japan

The are handled by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan.

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François Caron

François Caron (1600–1673) was a French Huguenot refugee to the Netherlands who served the Dutch East India Company (Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie or VOC) for 30 years, rising from cabin boy to Director-General at Batavia (Jakarta), only one grade below Governor-General.

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France

France, officially the French Republic (République française), is a sovereign state whose territory consists of metropolitan France in Western Europe, as well as several overseas regions and territories.

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France–Asia relations

France–Asia relations span a period of more than two millennia, starting in the 6th century BCE with the establishment of Marseille by Greeks from Asia Minor, and continuing in the 3rd century BCE with Gaulish invasions of Asia Minor to form the kingdom of Galatia and Frankish Crusaders forming the Crusader States.

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Franco-Japanese Treaty of 1907

The was a treaty between the French Third Republic and the Empire of Japan denoting respective spheres of influence in Asia, which was signed in Paris on 10 June 1907 by Japanese Ambassador Shin’ichiro Kurino and French Foreign Minister Stéphen Pichon.

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French corvette Dupleix (1861)

The Dupleix was a steam and sail corvette of the French Marine Nationale.

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French East India Company

The French East India Company (Compagnie française pour le commerce des Indes orientales) was a commercial enterprise, founded in 1664 to compete with the English (later British) and Dutch East India companies in the East Indies. Planned by Jean-Baptiste Colbert, it was chartered by King Louis XIV for the purpose of trading in the Eastern Hemisphere. It resulted from the fusion of three earlier companies, the 1660 Compagnie de Chine, the Compagnie d'Orient and Compagnie de Madagascar. The first Director General for the Company was François de la Faye, who was adjoined by two Directors belonging to the two most successful trading organizations at that time: François Caron, who had spent 30 years working for the Dutch East India Company, including more than 20 years in Japan, and Marcara Avanchintz, a trader from Isfahan, Persia.

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French Indochina

French Indochina (previously spelled as French Indo-China) (French: Indochine française; Lao: ສະຫະພັນອິນດູຈີນ; Khmer: សហភាពឥណ្ឌូចិន; Vietnamese: Đông Dương thuộc Pháp/東洋屬法,, frequently abbreviated to Đông Pháp; Chinese: 法属印度支那), officially known as the Indochinese Union (French: Union indochinoise) after 1887 and the Indochinese Federation (French: Fédération indochinoise) after 1947, was a grouping of French colonial territories in Southeast Asia.

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French language

French (le français or la langue française) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family.

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French military mission to Japan (1867–68)

The French Military Mission to Japan of 1867-68 was one of the first foreign military training missions to Japan.

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French military mission to Japan (1872–80)

The 1872–1880 French Military Mission to Japan was the second French military mission to that country.

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French military mission to Japan (1884–89)

The 1884 French Military Mission to Japan was the third French military mission to that country and consisted of five men.

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French military mission to Japan (1918–19)

The French Aeronautical Mission to Japan (1918-1919) was the first foreign military mission to Japan since the 1890s.

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Fukuzawa Yukichi

was a Japanese author, writer, teacher, translator, entrepreneur and journalist who founded Keio University, Jiji-Shinpō (a newspaper) and the Institute for Study of Infectious Diseases.

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George Psalmanazar

George Psalmanazar (c. 1679 – 3 May 1763) was a Frenchman who claimed to be the first native of Formosa (today Taiwan) to visit Europe.

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Ginza

is a district of Chūō, Tokyo, located south of Yaesu and Kyōbashi, west of Tsukiji, east of Yūrakuchō and Uchisaiwaichō, and north of Shinbashi.

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Guangzhouwan

Guangzhouwan (officially Kouang-Tchéou-Wan; also spelled Kwangchow Wan, Kwangchow-wan, Kwang-Chou-Wan or Quang-Tchéou-Wan) was a small enclave on the southern coast of China ceded by Qing China to France as a leased territory and administered as an outlier of French Indochina.

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Guillaume Courtet

Guillaume Courtet (1589–1637) was a French Dominican priest who has been described as the first Frenchman to have visited Japan.

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Gustave Boissonade

Gustave Émile Boissonade de Fontarabie (7 June 1825 – 27 June 1910) was a French legal scholar, responsible for drafting much of Japan's civil code during the Meiji Era, and honored as one of the founders of modern Japan's legal system.

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Gustave Duchesne de Bellecourt

Gustave Duchesne, Prince de Bellecourt (1817–1881) was a 19th-century French diplomat who was active in Asia, and especially in Japan.

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Hakodate

is a city and port located in Oshima Subprefecture, Hokkaido, Japan.

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Hasekura Tsunenaga

Hasekura Rokuemon Tsunenaga (or "Philip Francis Faxicura", baptized as "Francisco Felipe Faxicura", in Spain) (1571–1622) (支倉六右衛門常長, also spelled Faxecura Rocuyemon in period European sources, reflecting the contemporary pronunciation of Japanese) was a Japanese samurai and retainer of Date Masamune, the daimyō of Sendai of Japanese imperial descent with ancestral ties to Emperor Kanmu.

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Hendrik Doeff

Hendrik Doeff (2 December 1764 – 19 October 1837) was the Dutch commissioner in the Dejima trading post in Nagasaki, Japan, during the first years of the 19th century.

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Henri Farman

Henri Farman (26 May 1874 – 17 July 1958) was an Anglo-French aviator and aircraft designer and manufacturer with his brother Maurice Farman.

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Ho Chi Minh City

Ho Chi Minh City (Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh; or; formerly Hô-Chi-Minh-Ville), also widely known by its former name of Saigon (Sài Gòn; or), is the largest city in Vietnam by population.

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Hokkaido

(), formerly known as Ezo, Yezo, Yeso, or Yesso, is the second largest island of Japan, and the largest and northernmost prefecture.

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Huguenots

Huguenots (Les huguenots) are an ethnoreligious group of French Protestants who follow the Reformed tradition.

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Ichigaya

is an area in the eastern portion of Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan.

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Ikuno, Hyōgo

was a town located in Asago District, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan.

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Immaculate Heart of Mary

The Immaculate Heart of Mary is a devotional name used to refer to the interior life of the Blessed Virgin Mary, her joys and sorrows, her virtues and hidden perfections, and, above all, her virginal love for God the Father, her maternal love for her son Jesus, and her compassionate love for all people.

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Imperial Japanese Army Academy

The was the principal officer's training school for the Imperial Japanese Army.

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Imperial Japanese Navy

The Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN; Kyūjitai: 大日本帝國海軍 Shinjitai: 大日本帝国海軍 or 日本海軍 Nippon Kaigun, "Navy of the Greater Japanese Empire") was the navy of the Empire of Japan from 1868 until 1945, when it was dissolved following Japan's defeat and surrender in World War II.

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Impressionism

Impressionism is a 19th-century art movement characterised by relatively small, thin, yet visible brush strokes, open composition, emphasis on accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities (often accentuating the effects of the passage of time), ordinary subject matter, inclusion of movement as a crucial element of human perception and experience, and unusual visual angles.

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Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem

is a Japanese-French anime adventure fantasy science fiction musical film released on 28 May 2003.

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Iron Chef

is a Japanese television cooking show produced by Fuji Television.

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ISIL beheading incidents

Beginning in 2014, a number of people from various countries were beheaded by Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), a radical Sunni Islamist group operating in Iraq and parts of Syria.

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Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant

The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria or Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), Islamic State (IS) and by its Arabic language acronym Daesh (داعش dāʿish), is a Salafi jihadist terrorist organisation and former unrecognised proto-state that follows a fundamentalist, Salafi/Wahhabi doctrine of Sunni Islam.

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Jacquard loom

The Jacquard machine is a device fitted to a power loom that simplifies the process of manufacturing textiles with such complex patterns as brocade, damask and matelassé.

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Jacques Chirac

Jacques René Chirac (born 29 November 1932) is a French politician who served as President of France and ex officio Co-Prince of Andorra from 1995 to 2007.

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Japan

Japan (日本; Nippon or Nihon; formally 日本国 or Nihon-koku, lit. "State of Japan") is a sovereign island country in East Asia.

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Japanese art

Japanese art covers a wide range of art styles and media, including ancient pottery, sculpture, ink painting and calligraphy on silk and paper, ukiyo-e paintings and woodblock prints, ceramics, origami, and more recently manga—modern Japanese cartooning and comics—along with a myriad of other types.

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Japanese coup d'état in French Indochina

The Japanese coup d'état in French Indochina, known as Meigo Sakusen (Operation Bright Moon), was a Japanese operation that took place on 9 March 1945 towards the end of World War II.

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Japanese invasion of French Indochina

The was a short undeclared military confrontation between the Empire of Japan and Vichy France in northern Indochina.

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Japanese war crimes

War crimes of the Empire of Japan occurred in many Asia-Pacific countries during the period of Japanese imperialism, primarily during the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II.

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Japanophile

Japanophilia refers to the appreciation and love of Japanese culture, people or history.

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Japonism

First described by French art critic and collector Philippe Burty in 1872, Japonism, from the French Japonisme, is the study of Japanese art and artistic talent.

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Jean Francisque Coignet

Jean Francisque Coignet (1835 – 18 June 1902) was a French mining engineer and government advisor in Bakumatsu and Meiji period Japan noted for his modernization of the Ikuno Silver Mine at Ikuno, Hyōgo Prefecture, near Kobe.

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Jean-Baptiste Cécille

Jean-Baptiste Thomas Médée Cécille (16 October 1787, Rouen – 9 November 1873) was a French Admiral and politician who played an important role in the French intervention of Vietnam.

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Jean-Baptiste Louis Gros

Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gros (1793–1870), also known as Baron Gros, was a French diplomat and later senator, as well as a notable pioneer of photography.

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Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse

Jean François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse (variant spelling of his name comte "de La Pérouse"; 23 August 17411788?) was a French Naval officer and explorer whose expedition vanished in Oceania.

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JET Programme

The, or, is a Japanese government initiative that brings college (university) graduates—mostly native speakers of English—to Japan as Assistant Language Teachers (ALTs) and Sports Education Advisors (SEAs) in Japanese kindergartens, elementary, junior high and high schools, or as Coordinators for International Relations (CIRs) in local governments and boards of education.

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Jules Brunet

Jules Brunet (2 January 1838 – 12 August 1911) was a French Army officer who played a famous role in the Japanese Boshin War.

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Julie Dreyfus

Julie Dreyfus (born January 24, 1966) is a French actress.

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Kenzō Takada

is a Japanese-French fashion designer.

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Kobe

is the sixth-largest city in Japan and the capital city of Hyōgo Prefecture.

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Kobe Incident

The of February 4, 1868, also known in Japanese as the, and in English as "Bizen Affray", later "the Bizen Affair", was spun into a scandal in Franco-Japanese relations which represented the first major international affairs challenge for the fledgling Meiji government of Japan, and the "extrajurisdictional international zone", or "Foreign Settlement" at Hiogo, at the time occupied by a community of foreign merchant-houses, with some naval presence of arms from the countries of their incorporation, including the US Marines, of whom more than fifty landed in the panic, a mere 21 days after the highest-ranking American, Rear Admiral Henry H. Bell, was killed.

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Kure Naval Arsenal

was one of four principal naval shipyards owned and operated by the Imperial Japanese Navy.

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Kuril Islands

The Kuril Islands or Kurile Islands (or; p or r; Japanese: or), in Russia's Sakhalin Oblast region, form a volcanic archipelago that stretches approximately northeast from Hokkaido, Japan, to Kamchatka, Russia, separating the Sea of Okhotsk from the north Pacific Ocean.

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Kyoto

, officially, is the capital city of Kyoto Prefecture, located in the Kansai region of Japan.

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Laurent Fabius

Laurent Fabius (born 20 August 1946) is a French Socialist politician who served as Prime Minister of France from 17 July 1984 to 20 March 1986.

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Léon Roches

Léon Roches (September 27, 1809, Grenoble – 1901) was a representative of the French government in Japan from 1864 to 1868.

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Léonce Verny

François Léonce Verny, (2 December 1837 – 2 May 1908) was a French officer and naval engineerSims, Richard.

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Leiji Matsumoto

is a well-known creator of several anime and manga series.

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Louis Christophe François Hachette

Louis Christophe François Hachette (5 May 1800 – 31 July 1864) was a French publisher who established a Paris publishing house designed to produce books and other material to improve the system of school instruction.

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Louis-Émile Bertin

Louis-Émile Bertin (23 March 1840 – 22 October 1924) was a French naval engineer, one of the foremost of his time, and a proponent of the "Jeune École" philosophy of using light, but powerfully armed warships instead of large battleships.

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Lyon

Lyon (Liyon), is the third-largest city and second-largest urban area of France.

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Madagascar

Madagascar (Madagasikara), officially the Republic of Madagascar (Repoblikan'i Madagasikara; République de Madagascar), and previously known as the Malagasy Republic, is an island country in the Indian Ocean, off the coast of East Africa.

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Manga

are comics created in Japan or by creators in the Japanese language, conforming to a style developed in Japan in the late 19th century.

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Matthew C. Perry

Matthew Calbraith Perry (April 10, 1794 – March 4, 1858) was a Commodore of the United States Navy who commanded ships in several wars, including the War of 1812 and the Mexican–American War (1846–48).

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Meiji period

The, also known as the Meiji era, is a Japanese era which extended from October 23, 1868, to July 30, 1912.

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Messageries Maritimes

Messageries maritimes was a French merchant shipping company.

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Michael Ferrier

Michaël Ferrier (born 14 August 1967) is a French writer, novelist and essayist, living in Tokyo.

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Middle Ages

In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages (or Medieval Period) lasted from the 5th to the 15th century.

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Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is the ministry in the government of France that handles France's foreign relations.

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Mitsubishi Heavy Industries

is a Japanese multinational engineering, electrical equipment and electronics company headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

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Nagasaki

() is the capital and the largest city of Nagasaki Prefecture on the island of Kyushu in Japan.

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Napoleon

Napoléon Bonaparte (15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821) was a French statesman and military leader who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led several successful campaigns during the French Revolutionary Wars.

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Netherlands

The Netherlands (Nederland), often referred to as Holland, is a country located mostly in Western Europe with a population of seventeen million.

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Nihonbashi

is a business district of Chūō, Tokyo, Japan which grew up around the bridge of the same name which has linked two sides of the Nihonbashi River at this site since the 17th century.

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Nishijin

is a district in Kamigyō-ku, Kyoto, Japan.

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Niten Ichi Ryu Memorial

The Heiho Niten Ichi Ryu Memorial in the commune of Gleizé is a memorial to Japan in Jarnioux, Ville-sur-Jarnioux, Cogny and Liergues.

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Nuclear power

Nuclear power is the use of nuclear reactions that release nuclear energy to generate heat, which most frequently is then used in steam turbines to produce electricity in a nuclear power plant.

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Okayama Domain

The was a Japanese domain of the Edo period.

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Okinawa Prefecture

is the southernmost prefecture of Japan.

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Orano

Orano (previously Areva) is a French multinational group specializing in nuclear power and renewable energy headquartered in Paris La Défense.

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Osaka

() is a designated city in the Kansai region of Japan.

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Panhard

Panhard is a French manufacturer of light tactical and military vehicles.

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Paris

Paris is the capital and most populous city of France, with an area of and a population of 2,206,488.

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Paris Peace Conference, 1919

The Paris Peace Conference, also known as Versailles Peace Conference, was the meeting of the victorious Allied Powers following the end of World War I to set the peace terms for the defeated Central Powers.

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Paris syndrome

Paris syndrome (Syndrome de Paris, パリ症候群, Pari shōkōgun) is a transient mental disorder exhibited by some individuals when visiting or going on vacation to Paris, as a result of extreme shock derived from their discovery that Paris is not what they had expected it to be.

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Paul Claudel

Paul Claudel (6 August 1868 – 23 February 1955) was a French poet, dramatist and diplomat, and the younger brother of the sculptress Camille Claudel.

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Pierre Barouh

Pierre Barouh (19 February 1934 – 28 December 2016) was a French writer-composer-singer best known for his work on Claude Lelouch's film A Man and a Woman both as actor, and as lyric writer/singer for Francis Lai's music for the film.

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Prime Minister of Japan

The is the head of government of Japan.

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Racial equality

Racial equality occurs when institutions give equal opportunity to people of all races.

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Renaissance

The Renaissance is a period in European history, covering the span between the 14th and 17th centuries.

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Rome

Rome (Roma; Roma) is the capital city of Italy and a special comune (named Comune di Roma Capitale).

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Russian-American Company

The "Russian-American Company Under the Supreme Patronage of His Imperial Majesty" (Под высочайшим Его Императорского Величества покровительством Российская-Американская Компания Pod vysochayshim Yego Imperatorskogo Velichestva porkrovitelstvom Rossiyskaya-Amerikanskaya Kompaniya) was a state-sponsored chartered company formed largely on the basis of the United American Company.

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Ryukyu Islands

The, also known as the or the, are a chain of islands annexed by Japan that stretch southwest from Kyushu to Taiwan: the Ōsumi, Tokara, Amami, Okinawa, and Sakishima Islands (further divided into the Miyako and Yaeyama Islands), with Yonaguni the southernmost.

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Saint-Tropez

Saint-Tropez (Sant-Troupès in Provençal dialect) is a town on the French Riviera, west of Nice in the Var department of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region of southeastern France.

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Sakai

is a city located in Osaka Prefecture, Japan on the edge of Osaka Bay at the mouth of the Yamato River.

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Sakai incident

The was the killing of 11 French sailors from the French corvette ''Dupleix'' in the port of Sakai near Osaka, Japan in 1868.

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Sakhalin

Sakhalin (Сахалин), previously also known as Kuye Dao (Traditional Chinese:庫頁島, Simplified Chinese:库页岛) in Chinese and in Japanese, is a large Russian island in the North Pacific Ocean, lying between 45°50' and 54°24' N.

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Sakichi Toyoda

was a Japanese inventor and industrialist.

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Sakoku

was the isolationist foreign policy of the Japanese Tokugawa shogunate under which relations and trade between Japan and other countries were severely limited, nearly all foreigners were barred from entering Japan, and common Japanese people were kept from leaving the country for a period of over 220 years.

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Sasebo Naval Arsenal

was one of four principal naval shipyards owned and operated by the Imperial Japanese Navy.

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Satsuma Domain

, also known as Kagoshima Domain, was a Japanese domain of the Edo period.

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Second Japanese Embassy to Europe (1863)

The Second Japanese Embassy to Europe (第2回遣欧使節, also 横浜鎖港談判使節団), also called the Ikeda Mission, was sent on December 29, 1863 by the Tokugawa shogunate.

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Shōgun

The was the military dictator of Japan during the period from 1185 to 1868 (with exceptions).

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Shibata Takenaka

was an emissary for Japan who visited France in 1865 to help prepare for the construction of the Yokosuka arsenal with French support.

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Shimbashi Station

is a major interchange railway station in Tokyo's Minato Ward, located centrally and a 10-minute walk from the Ginza shopping district, directly south of Tokyo station.

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Shimonoseki Campaign

The refers to a series of military engagements in 1863 and 1864, fought to control Shimonoseki Straits of Japan by joint naval forces from Great Britain, France, the Netherlands and the United States, against the Japanese feudal domain of Chōshū, which took place off and on the coast of Shimonoseki, Japan.

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Shinzō Abe

is a Japanese politician serving as the 63rd and current Prime Minister of Japan and Leader of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) since 2012, previously being the 57th officeholder from 2006 to 2007.

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Silk

Silk is a natural protein fiber, some forms of which can be woven into textiles.

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Taiwan

Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a state in East Asia.

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Tetsumi Kudo

Tetsumi Kudo (23 February 1935 – 12 November 1990), was a Japanese artist associated with the Neo-Dada tradition.

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Tokugawa Iemochi

(July 17, 1846 – August 29, 1866) was the 14th shōgun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan, who held office from 1858 to 1866.

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Tokugawa shogunate

The Tokugawa shogunate, also known as the and the, was the last feudal Japanese military government, which existed between 1600 and 1868.

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Tomioka, Gunma

is a city located in Gunma Prefecture, Japan.

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Toyota

, usually shortened to Toyota, is a Japanese multinational automotive manufacturer headquartered in Toyota, Aichi, Japan.

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Tram

A tram (also tramcar; and in North America streetcar, trolley or trolley car) is a rail vehicle which runs on tramway tracks along public urban streets, and also sometimes on a segregated right of way.

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Treaty of Amity and Commerce between France and Japan

The Treaty of Amity and Commerce between France and Japan (Japanese:日仏修好通商条約) was signed in Edo on October 9, 1858, by Jean-Baptiste Louis Gros, the commander of the French expedition in China, assisted by Charles de Chassiron and Alfred de Moges, opening diplomatic relations between the two countries.

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Treaty of Paris (1856)

The Treaty of Paris of 1856 settled the Crimean War between the Russian Empire and an alliance of the Ottoman Empire, the British Empire, the Second French Empire and the Kingdom of Sardinia.

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Tsuguharu Foujita

was a Japanese–French painter and printmaker born in Tokyo, Japan, who applied Japanese ink techniques to Western style paintings.

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Turkey

Turkey (Türkiye), officially the Republic of Turkey (Türkiye Cumhuriyeti), is a transcontinental country in Eurasia, mainly in Anatolia in Western Asia, with a smaller portion on the Balkan peninsula in Southeast Europe.

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Ueno

is a district in Tokyo's Taitō Ward, best known as the home of Ueno Park.

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Ueno Station

is a major railway station in Tokyo's Taitō ward.

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Uganda

Uganda, officially the Republic of Uganda (Jamhuri ya Uganda), is a landlocked country in East Africa.

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Urup

Urup (Уру́п, Uruppu-to, translit) is an uninhabited volcanic island in the Kuril Islands chain in the south of the Sea of Okhotsk, northwest Pacific Ocean.

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Vichy France

Vichy France (Régime de Vichy) is the common name of the French State (État français) headed by Marshal Philippe Pétain during World War II.

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World war

A world war, is a large-scale war involving many of the countries of the world or many of the most powerful and populous ones.

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Yokohama

, literally "Port to the side" or "Beside the port", is the second largest city in Japan by population, after Tokyo, and the most populous municipality of Japan.

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Yokosuka Naval Arsenal

was one of four principal naval shipyards owned and operated by the Imperial Japanese Navy, and was located at Yokosuka, Kanagawa prefecture on Tokyo Bay, south of Yokohama.

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Yoshitoshi Tokugawa

Lieutenant General Baron was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army and one of the pioneers of military aviation in Japan.

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References

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