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Age of Steam, 88, 116 33, 33n30; and port openings, 8, 29, Akamagaseki. See Shimonoseki 32, 34, 36, 57; terms of, 69n27, 71, Akamagaseki Rice Exchange, 77 152, 182. See also revised treaties; Akkeshi (port, Hokkaido), 47 unequal treaties Amano Isaemon, 231 (port), 74, 80, 82n61, 84–85; America. See 1906 opening of, 85, 217n1; and Amoy (Xiamen, China), 7, 9 map, 72 railroad networks, 81, 82, 83, 85; and anchorage, 37, 160; at Moji, 130, 175, special trade bids, 227, 235, 239, 189; suitability of, 101, 222, 244 241, 249 anchor (ships at), 213, 214; and coal, Aoyagi Shirō, 238 102, 147, 175; at Moji, 149, 168, 175, army, 158, 162, 204–6; hospitals, 205; 193, 194, 205; at nontreaty locations, and journalists, 197–98, vs. navy, 23, 47, 76, 77, 79; and prostitution, 154, 185; and special trading ports, 177–78; and shipboard interviews, 240. See also Imperial Japanese 199, 201–5; unwelcome, 5, 30, 32 Army Anglo-Japanese Treaty of Amity and Army Ministry (Rikugunshō), 96n102, Commerce (1858), 180. See also 158, 192, 210, 239 Ansei Treaties; unequal treaties Asahi shinbun, 141–42n101, 198 Anglo-Japanese Treaty of Commerce Asano Sōichi, 136, 171n65 and Navigation (1894), 1, 190. See Ashiya (port, ), 2 map; and also revised treaties; treaty revision coal; 121, 123, 177; as transportation (process of) hub, 120, 128, 128n61 An-ping (Anping; port, ), 53, 54 Asō Takichi, 124n49, 257; as inves- map, 56 tor, 134, 141; as mine owner, 124, Ansei Treaties (1858), 15, 66; and 133 bakufu, 20, 34; and foreign relations, Atsuta (port, ). See Nagoya 274 Index

Australia, 144, 166; coal exports to, production in, 98–99, 122n38; 104, 147; rice exports to, 72, 86, 87; rationalization of, 116 –27, 148; and sulfur exports to, 63 transportation, 111, 133–35, 137, 157, Austria, 1n; ships from, 151, 162, 169n50. See also Chikuhō coal; 167, 168 Chikuhō region Chikuhō Coal Mining Industry bakufu. See shogunate Association. See Chikuhō Sekitan monetary crisis, 60 Kōgyō Kumiai (CSKK) bananas, 215, 256 Chikuhō Industrial Railway Company. barley (ōmugi and hadakamugi), 63 See Chikutetsu Battle of the Yalu, 198n34, 201, 211 Chikuhō region, 91, 118 map, 139, 257; bleaching powder, 47, 243 fi ve counties of, 99, 122, 139; name Bombay (Mumbai, India), 11, 88, 221 of, 118, 125; and re-regionalization, British empire, 65n9, 88, 183. See also 110, 116 –17, 119, 127, 148, 149 Great Britain Chikuhō Sekitan Kōgyō Kumiai brown rice. See genmai (CSKK), 136, 146, 148, 193; and coal Buzen Province, 117–18, 120n30, exports, 128; and coalfi eld rational- 135, 209 ization, 116, 123n43, 125, 127; and coal transport, 125, 128, 128n59, camphor, 53, 100n114 133; establishment of, 122–23 Canton (Guangzhou, China), 7, 9 map, Chikutetsu (Chikuhō Industrial 12 map, 26, 231 Railway Company), 116, 117, 125, cement, 47, 124n49, 243 135; railway line, 129, 134, 149 charcoal, 47, 243 Chikuzen Province, 99, 117–18, 119 chartered foreign vessels, 156; and China, 12 map, 25 table , 54 map, 203, coal transport, 164, 170–71; and 228, 258; and the Chishima-Ravenna nontreaty ports, 23, 155; and port court case, 181; coal in, 92, 146; coal regulations, 42, 47, 102, 113, 151, 165 to, 97, 104, 143, 195; and East Asian Chefoo (Yantai, China), 9 map, 101, diplomatic relations, 11, 14, 38, 40, 139, 199n40, 214n89 49, 190; exports to, 63, 86–87; chihō zaibatsu (local fi nancial cliques), Japanese competition with, 68, 89, 124, 124–25n49, 173. See also 147, 157; and Korea, 39, 40, 157, zaibatsu 157n24, 196, 214; and Moji, 199, 204, Chikuhō coal, 165; in East Asian 207–8, 210, 221, 254; and the Moji markets, 98, 99, 115, 145–48; export shinpō, 199–200, 204; and , of, 99, 113, 127–28, 145; and labor, 32–33; and the Ryukyu Kingdom, 172, 192; and the Sino-Japanese War 29–31; and shipping routes, 77, 86, (1894–95), 192, 195; types of, 170. 88, 162, 189, 235; ships from, 100, See also Chikuhō coalfi elds; coal 151, 167; and special trading ports, Chikuhō coalfi elds, 110n1, 134, 242; 23, 224n15, 231, 234, 245; and and competition with other mines, Taiwan, 53–55; and treaties with 91, 93, 98–99, 110, 144, 145–48; and , 8, 159, 189, 214, 215, 252; and local eff orts, 148, 253; and mine the treaty port system, 7, 26; and owners, 136, 141; and Mitsubishi, unequal treaties, 6–8, 13, 89–90n79; 135, 165; and Moji, 110, 113, 114, war with, 3, 43, 49, 186, 190, 190n1; 127, 129, 208; and the navy, 96; warships from, 159–60, 192, 206; and