Japan Ambassadors China Research Paper

Ambassadors China and Japan Han-Tang Period

Before the 10th Century, history shows that contact between Japan and China was done through ambassador diplomacy. Tribal leaders in Japan in the early second century would seek knowledge and support from China to strengthen their position within their tribe at home and to exert military influence upon Korea (pg. 1). Throughout the centuries, Japan would use the ambassador to gain knowledge and insight from China and they would make sure they used highly intelligent people to serve in these positions. The mission of the ambassadors for Japan and China was to represent his ruler and to seek the best results from the direction he was given from his ruler to achieve. The ambassador could deliver a small message, represent his ruler, or attend a funeral or appointments of higher positions for princess/etc., but in a broad case both Japanese and Chinese diplomats were cultured ambassadors. Japan believed the …show more content…
Each had spies on each side that would learn things from the other and each would take advantage in ways that they thought was right, but the system of ambassador that was put in place allowed for culture to be passed between two countries and allowed for influence among literature, silks, religion, and many other things to cross over to different areas. The ambassador system has a place at the time to create a peaceful environment setting for each lord//country. China saw “the whole world as coming under their jurisdiction. “Under the wide heaven,” one Chinese saying goes, “all is the King’s land. Within the sea-boundaries of the land, all are the King’s servants.” This world was unipolar, with China at the center and the neigh-boring countries at the peripheries. (pg. 216)”. China felt that ambassador system worked, but in the reading, I feel that they were taking advantage of by other