| 1 | The embassy was downgraded to a legation. | |
| 2 | Our legation was upgraded to an embassy. | |
| 3 | At that time, the Japanese legation in Peking have in place. | |
| 4 | It was Grazia, no longer in love with him and married to a secretary of the Austrian legation. | |
| 5 | In 1900 they (the Boxers) swept into Peking, murdered the German and Japanese ministers, and besieged the foreign legations. |