Okuma Shigenobu Sanji, to To His Excellency Sanjo , Daijo Daijin, February 8, 1875

Mr. Okuma’s correction of his address to His Majesty the Tenno, as published in the Japan Weekly Mail of February 6, 1875, and in the Japan Daily Herald of February 8, 1875.

Translation from the Japan Mail.

From the Tokio Nichi-Nichi Shimbun, February 3.

My address to the Throne of the 4th instant contains the following passage:

“After our troops had started, and were on their way, foreign public servants remonstrated,”

Your excellency having asked for an explanation of this passage, on the demand the foreign representatives, it becomes necessary that I should state that the foreign representatives did not remonstrate against the dispatch of Japanese troops to Formosa, but some of them, stating that their treaty relations with China obliged them to take this course, protested against the employment by Japan, in the Formosan expedition, of their ships and subjects or citizens, until it was known whether such employment would or would not be regarded in a hostile light by China.

I humbly make this representation.