San Francisco peace treaty

The Oxford Companion to World War II | 2001 | 700+ words | Copyright

San Francisco peace treaty, signed between Japan and 48 Allied nations at a conference in September 1951, but in the absence of China which was not invited. It gave Japan back its independence, ended its occupation and allowed those imprisoned by the Far East war crimes trials to be released. In return Japan abandoned its claims to Korea, Formosa, the Pescadores, the Kuriles, South Sakhalin and the Spratly and Paracel islands. The Ryūkyū and Bonin chains were to be controlled by the USA under a United Nations trusteeship. Japan also renounced any rights or interests in China and agreed to pay reparations to certain countries. The USSR, Poland, and Czechoslovakia refused to sign and though invited, India, Burma, and Yugoslavia did not attend.

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