The Twenty-One Demands was a set of demands made during the First World War by the Empire of Japan, under Prime Minister Okuma Shigenobu, to the government of the Republic of China on 18 January 1915. The secret demands would have greatly extended Japanese control of China: Japan would keep the former German leased territory it had seized at the start of the war, gain increased influence in Manchuria and Inner Mongolia, and take an expanded role in China's railways. The most extreme of the demands would have given Japan a decisive voice in China's finance, policing and government affairs, in effect making China a protectorate of Japan and reducing Western influence there.
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18 January 1915
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Japan-China Treaty of 1915
In Group: Diplomatic Correspondence and Secret Agreements of the World Wars Era, 1914 to 1945, Lead
The Twenty-One Demands was a set of demands made during the First World War by the Empire of Japan under Prime Minister Ōkuma Shigenobu to the government of the Republic of China on 18 January 1915.
In Era: The Late Modern Period, Lead
The Twenty-One Demands was a set of demands made during the First World War by the Empire of Japan under Prime Minister Ōkuma Shigenobu to the government of the Republic of China on 18 January 1915.
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