Enomoto Colony - Enomoto Shokuminchi

...This treaty was the first equal treaty that Japan had signed in the history of Japan's unequal treaty revisions. However, the relationship between Japan and Mexico in modern times did not lead to the establishment of close economic and political relations. Notable events were the attempted and failed construction of the Enomoto Colony at the end of the 19th century and the arrival of about 10,000 Japanese labor immigrants at the beginning of the 20th century. The Enomoto Colony project, funded by influential figures in the political and business world at the time, including Enomoto Takeaki (Minister of Foreign Affairs), acquired land in the Escuintla region of Chiapas in southern Mexico, and in 1897 sent the first 35 agricultural immigrants to cultivate coffee.

*Some of the terminology that refers to the "Enomoto Colony" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…この条約は日本の不平等条約改正史の上で日本がとりつけた，最初の平等条約であった。しかし，この後の近代日本･メキシコ関係は緊密な経済･政治関係を樹立するに至らず，19世紀末に試みられ失敗した〈榎本植民地〉の建設と，20世紀初頭に見られた約1万人の日本人労働移民の渡航が目だつできごとであった。榎本武揚(外務大臣)ら当時の政財界の有力者の出資で計画された榎本植民地計画は，メキシコ南部チアパス州エスクイントラ地区に土地を取得し，コーヒー栽培を目的に1897年に最初の農業移民35名を送り出した。…

※「榎本植民地」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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