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Excerpt from The Shantung Question: A Study in Diplomacy and World Politics In 1915 Japan sought to impose upon China the terms of what she considered to be a just settlement Of the Shantung question. These terms were em bodied in the notorious Twenty-one Demands, pre sented to China on January 18, 1915, and accepted in part on May 7 of the same year. They included China's assent to the direct disposition between Japan and Germany Of the German rights, interests and concessions in Shantung, and to the building by Japan of a railway from Chefoo or Lungkow to join the kiaochow-tsinan Railway. In 1917, in anticipation Of China's participation in the war, Japan entered into secret agreements with her European Allies, Great Britain, France, Italy, and Russia, whereby she was assured by them to sup port her claim at the Peace Conference to succeed to the rights and concessions which Germany had held in Shantung. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.