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The Treaty of San Francisco or San Francisco Peace Treaty between the Allied Powers and Japan, was officially signed by 49 nations on September 8, 1951 in San Francisco, California. It came into force on April 28, 1952. It is a popularly known name, but its formal English name is Treaty of Peace with Japan.

Treaty of San Francisco (San Francisco Peace Treaty) Treaty of Peace with Japan English

Treaty of Peace with Japan

French

Traité de paix avec le Japon

Spanish

Tratado de Paz con Japón

Japanese 日 本 国 と の 平 和 条 約 This treaty served officially to end World War II, to end ( Nihon-koku tono Heiwaformally Japan's position as an imperial power and to Jōyaku ? ) allocate compensation to Allied civilians and former prisoners of war who had suffered Japanese war crimes. This treaty made extensive use of the UN Charter and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to enunciate the Allies' goals.

This treaty, along with the Security Treaty signed that same year, is said to mark the beginning of the "San Francisco System", this term, coined by historian John Dower, signifies the effects of Japan's relationship with the United States and its role in the international arena as determined by these two treaties and is used to discuss the ways in which these effects have governed Japan's post-war history.

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1 Attending countries n 1.1 Signatories and ratification 2 The fate of Japanese overseas territories 3 Compensation to Allied civilians and POWs n 3.1 Transfer of Japanese overseas assets n 3.2 Compensation to Allied POWs n 3.3 Allied territories occupied by Japan 4 See also 5 References 6 External links

Attending countries Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Cambodia, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Ethiopia, France, Greece, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Laos, Lebanon, Liberia, Luxembourg, Mexico, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Pakistan, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, The Philippines, Poland, Saudi Arabia, the Soviet Union, Sri Lanka, South Africa, Syria, Turkey, the United Kingdom, the United States, Uruguay, Venezuela, Vietnam and Japan. Burma, India and Yugoslavia were also invited, but did not participate.[1] South Korea was invited to

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attend but strictly as an observer, as it was not recognized as a wartime ally.[2] Neither the Republic of China in Taiwan nor the People's Republic of China in Mainland China were invited because of the Chinese Civil War and the controversy over which government was legitimate.

Signatories and ratification The 49 participating countries signed the treaty,[3] except Czechoslovakia, Poland and the Soviet Union, which denied the treaty.[4] Colombia, Indonesia and Luxembourg signed the treaty but did not ratify it.

The fate of Japanese overseas territories

Prime Minister Yoshida Shigeru gives a speech on "reconciliation and rapport" (和 解 と 信 wakai 頼 to shinrai ? ) at the San Francisco Peace conference. Later he signed the peace treaty on the behalf of the Japanese government.

The document officially renounces Japan's treaty rights derived from the Boxer Protocol of 1901 and its rights to Korea, Formosa (Taiwan), Hong Kong (a British colony), the Kuril Islands, the Pescadores, the Spratly Islands, Antarctica and Sakhalin Island. The treaty does not formally state which nations are sovereign over these areas, an issue that some supporters of Taiwan independence use to justify Taiwanese self-determination according to Article 77b of the Charter of the United Nations, which applies trusteeships to "territories which may be detached from enemy states as a result of the Second World War." However, except for the Ryūkyūs, the areas over which Japan renounced sovereignty were never brought under any formal UN trusteeship arrangement and hence the specifications of Article 77 were not applied. Article 3 of the treaty formally put the Ryukyu Islands, which included Okinawa and the Amami, Miyako and Yaeyama Islands groups, under U.S. trusteeship. The Amami Islands were eventually ceded back to Japan on December 25, 1953 and in 1969 U.S.-Japan negotiations authorized the transfer of authority over the Ryūkyūs to Japan to be implemented in 1972. In 1972, the United States "reversion" of the Ryūkyūs occurred along with the ceding of control over the nearby (uninhabited) Senkaku Islands - without taking a position on the ultimate sovereignty of the Senkaku Islands, which are claimed by both the People's Republic of China and the Republic of China (Taiwan). By Article 11 Japan accepted the judgments of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East and of other Allied War Crimes Courts both within and outside Japan and agreed to carry out the sentences imposed thereby upon Japanese nationals imprisoned in Japan. The document further set guidelines for repatriation of prisoners of war and renounces future military aggression under the guidelines set by the UN Charter. The document nullifies prior treaties and lays down the framework for Japan's current status of retaining a military that is purely defensive in nature. There is also some ambiguity as to over which islands Japan has renounced sovereignty. This has led to both the Kuril Island conflict and the Diaoyutai/Senkaku dispute. Neither the Nationalist Republic of China nor the Communist People's Republic of China were invited to the San Francisco Peace Conference and therefore neither signed this treaty. The Republic of China,

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however, enacted a separate Treaty of Taipei with Japan in 1952, which acknowledged the terms of the San Francisco Treaty. Some supporters of Taiwan independence argue that the Treaty of San Francisco justifies Taiwan independence by not explicitly granting Taiwan to either the Republic of China or the People's Republic of China. This legal justification is rejected by both the PRC and ROC governments, both of which base their legal claims on Taiwan on the Instrument of Surrender of Japan which they argue incorporates the Potsdam Declaration and the Cairo Declaration. In addition, in more recent years supporters of Taiwan independence have more often relied on arguments based on self-determination and popular sovereignty and less on purely legal arguments. The Soviet Union refused to sign the Treaty of San Francisco. No separate peace treaty has been signed with Japan even after the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991. This has prevented the Russo-Japanese territorial disputes from being resolved.

Compensation to Allied civilians and POWs Transfer of Japanese overseas assets Japanese overseas assets refers to all assets owned by the Japanese government, firms, organisation and private citizens, in colonised or occupied countries. In accordance with Clause 14 of the Treaty, Allied forces confiscated all Japanese overseas assets, except those in China, which were dealt with under Clause 21. China repossessed all Japanese assets in Manchuria and Inner Mongolia, which included mineworks and railway infrastructure. Moreover, Clause 4 of the treaty stated that "the disposition of property of Japan and of its nationals...and their claims...against the authorities presently administering such areas and the residents...shall be the subject of special arrangements between Japan and such authorities." Consequently, it is considered that Korea was also entitled to the rights provided by Clause 21. Japanese overseas assets in 1945 (1945, ¥15=1US$) Country/region

Value (Yen)

Value (US Dollars)

Korea

70,256,000,000

4,683,700,000

Taiwan

42,542,000,000

2,846,100,000

North East China

146,532,000,000

9,768,800,000

North China

55,437,000,000

3,695,800,000

Central South China 36,718,000,000

2,447,900,000

Others

28,014,000,000

1,867,600,000

Total

¥379,499,000,000

$25,300,000,000

Compensation to Allied POWs Clause 16 of the San Francisco Treaty states: As an expression of its desire to indemnify those members of the armed forces of the Allied Powers who suffered undue hardships while prisoners of war of Japan, Japan will transfer its

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assets and those of its nationals in countries which were neutral during the war, or which were at war with any of the Allied Powers, or, at its option, the equivalent of such assets, to the International Committee of the Red Cross which shall liquidate such assets and distribute the resultant fund to appropriate national agencies, for the benefit of former prisoners of war and their families on such basis as it may determine to be equitable. The categories of assets described in Article 14(a)2(II)(ii) through (v) of the present Treaty shall be excepted from transfer, as well as assets of Japanese natural persons not residents of Japan on the first coming into force of the Treaty. It is equally understood that the transfer provision of this Article has no application to the 19,770 shares in the Bank for International Settlements presently owned by Japanese financial institutions. Accordingly, Japan paid £4,500,000 to the Red Cross.

Allied territories occupied by Japan Clause 14 of the treaty stated that "Japan will promptly enter into negotiations with Allied Powers so desiring, whose present territories were occupied by Japanese forces and damaged by Japan, with a view to assisting to compensate those countries for the cost of repairing the damage done, by making available the services of the Japanese people in production, salvaging and other work for the Allied Powers in question." Accordingly, the Philippines and South Vietnam received compensation in 1956 and 1959 respectively. Burma and Indonesia were not original signatories, but they later signed bilateral treaty in accordance with Clause 14 of the San Francisco Treaty. Japanese compensation to countries occupied during 1941–45 Country

Amount in Yen

Amount in US$

Date of treaty

Burma

72,000,000,000

200,000,000

November 5, 1955

Philippines 198,000,000,000

550,000,000

May 9, 1956

Indonesia

80,388,000,000

223,080,000

January 20, 1958

Vietnam

14,400,000,000

38,000,000

May 13, 1959

Total

¥364,348,800,000 US$1,012,080,000

The last payment was made to the Philippines on July 22, 1976.

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Peace treaty Rusk documents

References 1. ^ Social Studies: History for Middle School. 7-2. Japan's Path and World Events p.2, Teikoku Shoin [1] (http://www.je-kaleidoscope.jp/english/pdf/teiko7eg.pdf) 2. ^ NARA RG59, Lot54 D423 JAPANESE PEACE TREATY FILES OF JOHN FOSTER DULLES, Box 8, Korea[2] (http://captsato.net/photo/1951.pdf) 3. ^ Peace Treaties after World War II: Peace treaty signed in San Francisco, Sept. 8, 1951 The http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_San_Francisco PDF created with pdfFactory Pro trial version www.pdffactory.com

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History Channel [3] (http://www.historychannel.com/worldwartwo/?page=triumph6) 4. ^ Foreign Office Files for Japan and the Far East 1951:September, Adam Matthew Publications [4] (http://www.adam-matthewpublications.co.uk/digital_guides/fo_japan_series3/brief_chronology.aspx)

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Text of the treaty (http://www.unierfurt.de/ostasiatische_geschichte/texte/japan/dokumente/19/19510908_treaty.htm) Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida's Speech at the San Francisco Peace Conference (http://www.ioc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~worldjpn/documents/texts/JPUS/19510907.S1E.html) John Foster Dulles's Speech at the San Francisco Peace Conference (http://www.ioc.utokyo.ac.jp/~worldjpn/documents/texts/JPUS/19510905.S1E.html) Understanding the San Francisco Peace Treaty's Disposition of Formosa and the Pescadores (http://www.taiwankey.net/dc/hartzell5.pdf)

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