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While Joseon maintained a policy of [[kaikin|maritime restrictions]] more or less just as strict as that of the Tokugawa shogunate, it was less strict in banning [[Christianity]], and a number of Christian missionaries managed to sneak into Korea from China over the course of the period.<ref>Mitani Hiroshi, David Noble (trans.), ''Escape from Impasse'', International House of Japan (2006), 2.</ref>

While Joseon maintained a policy of [[kaikin|maritime restrictions]] more or less just as strict as that of the Tokugawa shogunate, it was less strict in banning [[Christianity]], and a number of Christian missionaries managed to sneak into Korea from China over the course of the period.<ref>Mitani Hiroshi, David Noble (trans.), ''Escape from Impasse'', International House of Japan (2006), 2.</ref>

In the 1860s, seeking to protect and continue its traditional [[tribute|tributary]] relationship with [[Qing Dynasty]] China, Korea resisted entering into diplomatic relations in the Western mode with either Western powers, or with the Qing's own Western-style foreign affairs office, the [[Zongli Yamen]].<ref>Hellyer, 236.</ref> When informed in [[1869]] of the [[Meiji Restoration|fall of the Tokugawa shogunate]] and the establishment of a new [[Meiji government|Imperial Japanese government]], the Korean Court chastised the Sô family for its breach of the traditional vassal/tributary relationship, and Japanese-Korean relations soured for several years; after [[Tsushima han|Tsushima]] and the Sô clan were removed from their traditionally special permission, and the Meiji government more fully took over control of foreign relations, Japanese-Korean relations in the Western/modern mode were finally established in [[1876]]. The [[Treaty of Ganghwa]] signed that year has been regarded as one of the [[Unequal Treaties]], granting Japan many of the same privileges in Korea that Western powers now enjoyed in Japan.<ref>Hellyer, 240-245.</ref>

In the 1860s, seeking to protect and continue its traditional [[tribute|tributary]] relationship with [[Qing Dynasty]] China, Korea resisted entering into diplomatic relations in the Western mode with either Western powers, or with the Qing's own Western-style foreign affairs office, the [[Zongli Yamen]].<ref>Hellyer, 236.</ref> When informed in [[1869]] of the [[Meiji Restoration|fall of the Tokugawa shogunate]] and the establishment of a new [[Meiji government|Imperial Japanese government]], the Korean Court chastised the Sô family for its breach of the traditional vassal/tributary relationship, and Japanese-Korean relations soured for several years; after [[Tsushima han|Tsushima]] and the Sô clan were removed from their traditionally special permission, and the [[Meiji government]] more fully took over control of foreign relations, factions within the government [[Seikanron|debated]] in [[1873]]-[[1874]] whether to invade Korea as punishment for its hostile position; in the end, there was no invasion, and several prominent figures in support of the invasion resigned from government. In [[1875]], a Japanese ship requesting aid, food, and water at a Korean port was fired upon in response, and so [[Inoue Kaoru]] and [[Kuroda Kiyotaka]] traveled to Korea on an official mission to address the issue. [[Mori Arinori]] was simultaneously dispatched to China, to seek China's assistance in securing friendly relations with Korea.<ref>[[Marius Jansen]], ''China in the Tokugawa World'', Harvard University Press (1992), 115.</ref>

 

Japanese-Korean relations in the Western/modern mode were finally established in [[1876]]. The [[Treaty of Ganghwa]] signed that year has been regarded as one of the [[Unequal Treaties]], granting Japan many of the same privileges in Korea that Western powers now enjoyed in Japan.<ref>Hellyer, 240-245.</ref>

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