Amau declaration
The Amau Declaration ( Japanese 天羽 声明 , Amou-seimei , historically : Amau-seimei ) of April 20, 1934 was a statement by the Japanese Foreign Ministry on China policy.
designation
The declaration was named after its author Amou Eiji ( 天羽 英 二 ). He was the director of the information office of the Japanese Foreign Minister and in that capacity he passed the statement on to the foreign press.
content
In the Amau Declaration, Japan set out its stance on China policy. The Japanese side expressed their interest in the unity and internal order of China. Territorial integrity was also presented as an interest of Japan, but this contradicted its actions in the Mukden crisis and the expansion policy of Japan.
The Japanese side also stated that China could only achieve these goals through its own efforts and opposed "attempts by China to use the influence of other states to resist Japan" . Japan interpreted the Chinese search for support as playing off the powers that be interested in China.
Japan also saw the delivery of arms and military advisers to China as "disrupting friendly relations between China and Japan and third powers" and implied that this aid would contribute to the threat to peace in East Asia.
Reactions
China responded to the Amau Declaration by saying that China's rejection of any kind of international tutelage was just as great as its aversion to the domination of China by a single country. Japan then stated that Amou Eiji had formulated the position radically, but approved of the content.
The British ambassador in Tokyo, however, questioned the claimed supremacy of Japan in relation to decisions by the signatory powers in China, referring to the Nine Powers Treaty .
literature
- Gottfried-Karl Kindermann: The rise of East Asia in world politics 1840-2000. Munich: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 2001. - ISBN 3-421-05174-7 .
Web links
- Article in the journal for foreign public law and international law from 1934 (PDF file; 1.20 MB)
