253 6.47 The Treaty of Amity and Commerce (2/2)
”The Japanese Government will cause this clause to be made public in every part of the Empire as soon as the ratifications of this Treaty shall be exchanged. Munitions of war shall only be sold to the Japanese Government and foreigners....”
”This is inappropriate. Do you want to sell guns to minors like us? No... No... No... No weapons at all. Our Kodachi alone can cause damage, what's more with weapons and munitions. We Japanese are peace-loving society.”
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”Give us a cannon and it would be made into a merrymaking confetti launcher instead and also use it to scare small wild animals off the farm. Other than that, it could be used to make a roll call to wake up the other residents. Hahahaha. I'm striking this off too... I prefer Russian or China weapons over your matchlocks and stuff.”
I proceeded to strike them off and Townsend Harris looked in horror that I almost find fault in every phrase inside the treaty.
” ARTICLE IV. Duties shall be paid to the Government of Japan on all goods landed in the country, and on all articles of Japanese production that are exported as cargo, according to the tariff hereunto appended. . .”
”C' mon la. Don't act stupid and dumb. You won't want me to call you stupid or education-deficiency, do you? How about less-knowledgeable or simply ignorant?”
”New Kitakata Town is a free trade town. No taxes imposed on the incoming and outgoing flow of goods. This is for the benefit of the merchants here. If they want to pay a sum to the council here, be my guest. They can pay directly to the treasurer and the monies we collect goes into the Fasuto Japan Bank instead of our supporting account of Fasuto Japan KabushikiGaisha.”
”The importation of opium is prohibited; and, any American vessel coming to Japan for the purposes of trade having more than four pounds weight of opium on board, such surplus quantity shall be seized and destroyed by the Japanese authorities.”
”All goods imported into Japan and which have paid the duty fixed by this Treaty may be transported by the Japanese into any part of the empire without the payment of any tax, excise, or transit duty whatever.”
”Is this a double standard or what? If it mentioned here as the importation of opium is prohibited, then what is 4 pounds of opium stated here for? Are you fucking with our brains and intellectual or what? Fuck this shit...!!
”A 25 gram of opium in possession on a person is punishable by death. Anything less is imprisonment of 7 years without deduction of Saturdays, Sundays and Public Holidays. These prisoners would be termed as 'LT' or Long Term sentences.”
”A ship with anything more than 25 gram and no one is coming forward to claim responsibility, would be seized and all its contents would be under the property of Fasuto Japan KabushikiGaisha. Any items that would be considered harmful or causes unrest among the peaceful of the society would be burned. Yeah... Burned right before your eyes.”
”Sensei, please take note that a new division would be put up. Its called the CPIB and DEA also known as Corruption Practises Investigation Bureau and Drug Enforcement Agency.”
”I personally have zero tolerance against drugs, orally, intravenously, smoked or inhaled and those caught would be seriously dealt with. In fact, I'd prefer 'TAKE NO PRISONERS' concept and any drug users, abusers, addicts, peddlers, lords would be put to death. Don't fuck with the system and the system don't fuck with you... Understand? ”
”Fuck with your 4 pounds... I'm going to strike this off.” and I strike off the article and in place I wrote 'CPIB', 'DEA' and 'DEATHROW'.
Townsend Harris and his men looked in horror as I've explicitly cursed the article and proceeded to the highest maximum penal code ever introduced in the history of law.
”ARTICLE VI. Americans committing offences against Japanese shall be tried in American Consular courts, and, when guilty, shall be punished according to American law. Japanese committing offences against Americans shall be tried by the Japanese authorities and punished according to Japanese law.”
”The Consular courts shall be open to Japanese creditors, to enable them to recover their just claims against American citizens; and the Japanese courts shall in like manner be open to American citizens for the recovery of their just claims against Japanese... ”
”What the fuck...!!! Why should there be two separate laws on a single piece of land? In your first sentence here stated 'peace and friendship between the United States and Japanese', don't you guys realised where you come from?”
”In this case, Your Majesty and Sensei and to those who could lend a hand, please gather around and look for lawyers and solicitors so that we could embark and write up our own set of laws and bylaws to superseded the ones that were already in place and in the motion.”
”This is crap, worse than horse crap in the side of the road. Its utterly rubbish and we are going to have domestic and international law, criminal, property, intellectual and other laws. We might set up an AGC as well for this. ATTORNEY GENERAL CHAMBERS... Yeah... I like the sound of it.”
”RECESS...!! This meeting will be adjourned after breakfast and morning tea. Sorry to drag on this, Gentlemen. We have also hit 2k world's on this chapter and too long might bore the readers and too short might not be worth the SS they going to spend. So let's start bickering on the next chapter shall we?”