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January 18th 1915: Japan issues ‘21 Demands’
On this day in 1915, Japan issued its ‘Twenty-One Demands’ to the Republic of China. This came during a period of Japanese expansion in East Asia, as the country aimed to increase its power in the region. Japan’s imperial desires followed the nation’s forcible opening to international trade by American Commodore Perry in the mid-nineteeth-century, ending hundreds years of the sakoku policy of isolation. The demands were drafted under Prime Minister Ōkuma Shigenobu and were presented to China’s General Yuan Shikai as an ultimatum, threatening China with war if they failed to comply. They included expanding Japan’s influence in southern Manchuria, the right of extraterritoriality, disallowing China from giving any land to countries other than Japan, and, lastly, the introduction of Japanese advisers to the Chinese government to essentially manage the whole economy. China objected to the last section and the Japanese revised the demands, presenting them again to China, who accepted the ultimatum in May 1915. Japan’s actions distanced the nation from its allies in Britain and the United States, who opposed this imperialist diplomacy. The Demands contributed to a growing anger towards Japan among Chinese people, giving rise to an incipient nationalism. At the Washington Conference in 1921-1922, Japan agreed to withdraw troops from China and restore the nation’s sovereignty, thus essentially nullifying the Twenty-One Demands.
Along a snowy highway in the Rockies lies Buford, Wyo., elevation: 8,000 feet, population: one.
This tiny town is in danger of losing its last — and only — resident, as the town’s longest running business may have to close.
But this is really a story about three people. The first is Jason Hirsch, Buford’s town manager.
He mans the Buford Trading Post, which is also the gas station, the store and well, town hall basically.
Now despite his role as town manager, Hirsch is not the town’s one resident.
Buford: Come for the Coffee, Stay … To Keep The Tiny Town Open
Photos: Kirk Siegler/NPR
Takehisa Yumeji 竹久夢二 (1884-1934)
Photo of his muse, O You お葉 (1904-1980) - Japan - 1920s
Anonymous photographer, Japan, 1954 / Courtesy Galerie Lumière des Roses / source
