Twenty-One Demands
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The Twenty-One Demands were a set of demands which the Japanese government of Okuma Shigenobu sent to the Chinese government on January 18th, 1915, which China gave in to and signed two treaties with Japan on May 25th.
Despite China being on the side of the Allies in World War I, the Japanese demanded German spheres of influence be annexed to them. Japan wanted special economic rights for the Japanese occupants living in parts of China (Spence 1999, 281).* The government of Yuan Shi-kai prepared to sign the agreement, but when words leaked out to the world of this agreement, mass protests sprung up across China and threatened revolution if Yuan's government agreed to the demands. Western pressure forced Japan to abandon its ambitions.
The demands caused a severe boycott movement of Japanese products in China.
See also
References
- Spence, Jonathan D. "The New Republic." In "The Search for Modern China". 281. New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company, 1999
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