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Treaty of San Francisco
The Treaty of San Francisco or San Francisco Peace (San Francisco Peace Treaty)
Treaty between the Allied Powers and Japan, was
Treaty of Peace with Japan
officially signed by 49 nations on September 8, 1951 in
San Francisco, California. It came into force on April 28, English Treaty of Peace with Japan
1952. It is a popularly known name, but its formal French Traité de paix avec le Japon
English name is Treaty of Peace with Japan.
Spanish Tratado de Paz con Japón
This treaty served officially to end World War II, to end Japanese 日 本 国 と の 平 和 条 約
formally Japan's position as an imperial power and to ( Nihon-koku tono Heiwa-
allocate compensation to Allied civilians and former Jōyaku ? )
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.

Contents
n 1 Attending countries
n 1.1 Signatories and ratification
n 2 The fate of Japanese overseas territories
n 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
n 4 See also
n 5 References
n 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 Prime Minister Yoshida Shigeru gives a
the treaty but did not ratify it. speech on "reconciliation and rapport" (和
解 と 信 頼 to shinrai ? ) at the San
wakai
The fate of Japanese overseas Francisco Peace conference. Later he
signed the peace treaty on the behalf of the
territories 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.

See also
n Peace treaty
n 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

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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-matthew-
publications.co.uk/digital_guides/fo_japan_series3/brief_chronology.aspx)

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

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