2018 年 33 巻 p. 153-204
The first part of this paper was published in March 2016 (No. 26 issue of this journal) and its second part was published in October 2017 (No. 29 issue of the same journal).
In the third part, the following topics will be treated. (1) Introduction of a newly found memoir of Omoda Rihei (a member of the first Japanese emigrant to Siam in January 1895), (2) On the 14th September 1895, Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs placed all Japanese residents in Siam under the protection of France. How Japanese residents in Siam and Siamese Government reacted against such a imprudent decision of Japanese Government. (3) Iwamoto Chizuna’s effort to establish Japanese consulate in Bangkok in order to make Japanese residents exempt from the status of French Protégé. (4) Iwamoto’s abortive enterprise to establish a big Japan-Siam trade company by mobilizing the capital of a large number of investors in the second half of 1896.