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Belgium–Japan relations are the bilateral relations between the nations of Belgium and Japan. Belgium has an embassy in Tokyo and 5 honorary consulates in Sapporo, Nagoya, Kyoto, Osaka, and Fukuoka.〔(Belgian embassy in Tokyo )〕 Japan has an embassy in Brussels.〔(Japanese embassy in Brussels )〕 == First official relations (1866-1893) == 〔Dirk De Ruyver and trainspot KK, ‘’The Belgian Legation in Yokohama 1874-1893’’, Belgian Embassy in Tokyo, 2009, 34 p.〕 On 1 August 1866, Japan and Belgium signed the Japan-Belgium Treaty of Amity, Commerce and Navigation. On Belgian side, it was negotiated and signed by August ‘t Kint de Roodenbeek, the first Belgian diplomat visiting Japan after the country had opened up in 1859 On the basis of this bilateral treaty, a Belgian vice consulate was established in Yokohama on 28 March 1867, headed by the Dutch businessman Maurice Lejeune. He was succeeded by Emile Moulron in July 1872, who continued to act as vice consul in Yokohama till October 1878. ‘t Kint de Roodenbeek, who left Japan for Belgium at the end of 1867, became envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary for China and Japan in May 1869. He took up his post in Japan in November 1870, but left again in September 1871. During his mandate he mainly stayed in Yokohama, though he performed his official duties in Tokyo. From 1869 on, Belgium also had a consulate in Tokyo, headed by Louis Strauss, a businessman from Antwerp. This consulate closed in 1873. On 25 June 1873, Charles de Groote was appointed Minister Resident for Japan. Groote was director of the accountancy department of the Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He arrived in Yokohama in November 1873. After a few months in Tokyo, he established the Belgian legation on the Bluff in the Yokohama Foreign Settlement by mid March 1874. Charles de Groote left for Belgium in March 1878, but returned to Yokohama as envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary in December 1879. While in Belgium, he negotiated the appointment of Maurice Verhaeghe de Naeyer from Ghent as new Belgian consul. Verhaeghe de Naeyer took up his post in Yokohama in October 1878, but was found dead in his residence on the Bluff on 27 October 1879. According to the Japanese press, he had committed suicide; a thesis disputed by some of the press in his hometown Ghent. Again, de Groote established the Belgian legation on the Bluff in Yokohama. In January 1880 Gustave Scribe from Ghent arrived as new Belgian consul in Yokohama. He established a consulate on the Bluff, not far from the Belgian legation. In May 1883, he became subject of a judicial complaint from some Japanese businessmen in the so-called Pouleur case. He left Japan in January 1884, after having been appointed Consul General in Batavia. The relationship of Charles de Groote with the Japanese authorities turned sour in 1881, due to the so-called Hota case. On the request of the Belgian Foreign Ministry, Groote left Japan in September 1881. It took till February 1882 before matters were resolved, resulting in Groote returning to Yokohama in May 1882. His tenure would end on 16 September 1884, when he suddenly died in his residence on the Bluff. The new Belgian envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary for Japan was Georges Neyt, who arrived in Yokohama in February 1885. After first having established himself on the Bund in Yokohama Foreign Settlement, he finally brought the Belgian legation to Bluff no. 118 in Yokohama, where it would stay till November 1893. Neyt left Japan by mid July 1891. For more than two years, he left the legation in the hands of the secretary, Paul de Groote, son of former minister Charles de Groote. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Belgium–Japan relations」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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