The article reported that the French original of the Convention between Ryukyu and France bearing the seal of the Ryukyu Kingdom had been discovered in the 2 The Japan Institute of International Affairs / Resource Library Shioki, Fuyō , Zokkoku and Sovereignty Shioki, Fuyō , Zokkoku and Sovereignty In this essay, the author intends to clarify issues surrounding these Conventions in the light of in. [...] These islands come within the jurisdiction of the prince of Satsuma, the most powerful of the princes of the Empire.”26 However, during the preparation of the Treaty of Peace and Amity, Perry requested that the Shogunate establish several open ports within Japan, and suggested that Ryukyu be one of the candidates. [...] 35 About five months after the conclusion of the Japan-US Treaty of Amity (and about two months after the conclusion of the Convention between Ryukyu and the United States), on uru’u intercalary month of July 15 in the traditional Japanese calendar (September 7, 1854, in the Western calendar), Commander-in-chief James Stirling of the British East Indies and the China Station, arrived in Nagasaki. [...] The preamble of the draft treaty that Perry presented to the Ryukyu Kingdom on June 14 (July 8 in Western calendar), contained a paragraph that positioned the Ryukyu Kingdom as “an independent nation,” according to the document “Narrative of the Expedition of an American Squadron to the China Seas and Japan, Performed in the years 1852, 1853, and 1854, under the Command of Commodore M. [...] One of the main factors would have been the similarity of the content of the Netherlands treaty to the earlier Convention with the US (although Article 8 regarding “most-favored-nation treatment” and Article 9 on ratification were both added), and the long history of exchanges between the Netherlands and Japan.55 Yet in the end, this Convention, too, was never ratified by the Netherlands.
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