French diplomat in Mali sentenced to 20 years in prison for 'undermining state security'
France 24 →A court in Mali has sentenced a French intelligence agent with diplomatic status to 20 years in prison for 'undermining state security', further straining already fraught relations between the West African junta-led state and its former colonial ruler France.
Japanese Pardon a Frenchman - Had Been Convicted of Being a Spy for Russia
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TOKYO, July 16.--Premier Katsura, on the authority of Emperor Mutsuhito, has signed a pardon for Captain A. Y. Bougoin and Maxi, his Japanese clerk. The amnesty includes freedom from police surveillance. Captain Bougoin, a prominent French resident of Tokyo and formerly attached to the French legation there, together with his stepson, C. F. Strange, who is an Englishman, and Maxi, a Japanese clerk who acted as Bougoin's assistant, were arrested in May charged with being spies for Russia. Bougoin was sentenced July 10 to ten years at hard labor, the judgment declaring that he had been engaged in searching for and reporting artillery secrets. Maxi confessed and was also sentenced. Strange was released after the preliminary examination in June, there not being enough evidence at hand to warrant holding him.
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Treaty of Portsmouth
The Treaty of Portsmouth formally ended the 1904–1905 Russo-Japanese War. U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt was instrumental in the negotiations and won the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts, the first ever American recipient. The signing of the treaty created three decades of peace between the two nations and confirmed Japan's emergence as the pre-eminent power in East Asia.
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The Dreyfus affair was a political scandal that divided the Third French Republic from 1894 until its resolution in 1906, when the Court of Cassation annulled the original conviction and Dreyfus was fully rehabilitated — a landmark reckoning with a French officer wrongly convicted of spying for a foreign power.
Wikipedia →Franco-Japanese Treaty of 1907
The Franco-Japanese Treaty was a treaty between the French Third Republic and the Empire of Japan denoting respective spheres of influence in Asia, which was signed in Paris on 10 June 1907, by Japanese Ambassador Shin'ichiro Kurino and French Foreign Minister Stéphen Pichon. Relations between France and Japan prior to the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–1905 had been chilly. France was also a vocal supporter of Russia during the war.
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