These conditions were far from what Japanese people were expecting, which are reparations of 5 billion yen, the transfer of the right for Liaodong Peninsula as well as the right of the railroad between Lushun and Harupin, the transfer of the entire land of Sakhalin and so on.
この条件は、国民が考えていた条件とは大きくかけ離れるものであった（日本側は賠償金50億円、遼東半島の権利と旅順-ハルピン間の鉄道権利の譲渡、樺太全土の譲渡などを望んでいた。