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of January 1856, which opened the city and port of Nagasaki to Dutch traders, who were no longer to be confined to their prison-like location in Dejima. However, the treaty was severely condemned in the Dutch Parliament and by the Minister of Colonies for its lack of a paragraph confirming trading
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rights. Curtius was forced to negotiate a follow-on agreement called the 'Additional Articles' in October 1857. Among the Japanese concessions to the Dutch in the "Additional Articles" was a pledge that the Dutch may practice
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However, during this time Curtius was also plagued with administrative problems, and issues with his staff led him to dismiss most of his employees and order them back to Batavia. In 1858 Curtius made a ceremonial visit to
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Jan Hendrik also stayed in Japan and died at Yokohama, 22 February 1912; he married a Japanese, Koyama Okin, and had 6 children, per Dr. H.J. Moeshart, A list of Names of Foreigners in Japan (Amsterdam
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and the Netherlands, after which he returned to Amsterdam. In 1864, he remarried to Geertruida Margaretha Constance Balck. He subsequently was employed by the Internationale Crediet Maatschappij at
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sent a letter urging Japan to end the isolation policy on its own before change would be forced from the outside. The Dutch had also warned the Japanese of the
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and was conducted exclusively at Nagasaki. By the early nineteenth century, this policy of isolation was increasingly under challenge. In 1844, King
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led a fleet of British warships to Nagasaki on September 7, 1854. Stirling requested the assistance of Curtius to reaffirm Japan’s
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in the conflict, but through a series of miscommunications and misunderstandings, the negotiations ended with the signing of the
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in the Netherlands, as the son of Hendrik Herman Donker Curtius, a theologian. He grew up in Arnhem and studied law at
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in Japan; this constituted the first allowance of Christianity of any kind in Japan since the beginning of the
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Herman J. Moeshart:'The conclusion of the first Dutch treaty with Japan' in Crossroads, No.5, Autumn 1997
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Archive of the Ministry of the Colonies in the National Archive at The Hague, Dutch Factory in Japan.
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in an attempt to force the opening of Japan. At the time, Russia was at war with Great Britain (the
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arrived at Nagasaki with a fleet of four vessels, just one month after the visit to Perry to
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Library. Curtius left Japan in 1860 for Batavia. In 1861 he concluded a treaty between
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from outside influences. Foreign trade was maintained only with the Dutch and the
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to pay tribute to Shogun Tokugawa Iesada. He was accompanied by his secretary
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based on the American treaty, with the additional clause that the use of
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During his stay in Japan Curtius acquired a collection of 111 books on
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Boudewijn stayed in Japan and died at Yokohama, 24 September 1911.
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The Language Problem in the Anglo-Japanese Negotiations of 1854
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of the Dutch trading post in Japan (1852-1855), located at
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Dr. H.J. Moeshart, Een miskend geneesheer (Amsterdam 2003)
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was assigned to be a training ship to the newly formed
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Index


Arnhem
Netherlands
Dejima
Nagasaki
Arnhem
Leiden University
Semarang
Netherlands East Indies
Amsterdam
Batavia
Opperhoofd
Dutch East India Company
Tokugawa shogunate
isolating the country
Chinese
William II of the Netherlands
Perry Expedition
Yevfimy Putyatin
Uraga
Crimean War
Royal Navy
Sir James Stirling
East Indies and China Station
neutrality
Anglo-Japanese Friendship Treaty
Royal Netherlands Navy
King William III
Tokugawa Iesada
Kankō Maru

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