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oapen-20.500.12657-401042020-08-03T08:33:08Z Chapter 1 Rethinking the Maria Luz Incident Mihalopoulos, Bill Japanese studies Japanese culture and society Japanese politics bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JP Politics & government bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JH Sociology & anthropology::JHM Anthropology bic Book Industry Communication::G Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects::GT Interdisciplinary studies::GTB Regional studies bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JH Sociology & anthropology::JHB Sociology This chapter adopts methodological cosmopolitanism to revisit the Maria Luz Incident (1872), a colourful diplomatic episode that involved two civil suits brought before a court created for the specific purpose of adjudicating whether the ship’s captain ill-treated and abused his Chinese ‘passengers’ while the ship was anchored for repairs in Yokohama Port. The chapter argues that the Maria Luz Incident was not a seminal moment when rights talk was introduced to Japan. Rather, the incident was due to a lack of consensus in international law regarding whether the ‘coolie trade’ was free labour or slavery. The research traces how international law and narrow ideas of freedom (the freedom to enter contracts) became aligned with the workings of Japanese licensed prostitution. 2020-07-27T09:26:19Z 2020-07-27T09:26:19Z 2020 chapter https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/40104 eng application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9780367406806_oachapter1.pdf Taylor & Francis New Frontiers in Japanese Studies Routledge 10.4324/9780367821494 10.4324/9780367821494 7b3c7b10-5b1e-40b3-860e-c6dd5197f0bb f264a700-dac7-42b9-b71a-f6038f2ac6d1 Routledge 13 open access
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This chapter adopts methodological cosmopolitanism to revisit the Maria Luz Incident (1872), a colourful diplomatic episode that involved two civil suits brought before a court created for the specific purpose of adjudicating whether the ship’s captain ill-treated and abused his Chinese ‘passengers’ while the ship was anchored for repairs in Yokohama Port. The chapter argues that the Maria Luz Incident was not a seminal moment when rights talk was introduced to Japan. Rather, the incident was due to a lack of consensus in international law regarding whether the ‘coolie trade’ was free labour or slavery. The research traces how international law and narrow ideas of freedom (the freedom to enter contracts) became aligned with the workings of Japanese licensed prostitution.
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