San Francisco, Peace Treaty of

A Dictionary of Contemporary World History | 2004 | 558 words | Copyright

San Francisco, Peace Treaty of (8 Sept. 1951) The peace treaty which followed Japan's unconditional surrender in World War II on 2 September 1945. It was signed by forty-eight countries that had been at war with Japan, though not by China and the Soviet Union. It restored Japan's full sovereignty, albeit with the continued presence of a number of US bases in the country. It brought the work of the Supreme Allied Command of the Pacific (SACP) to an end, with the occupying US forces leaving the country by 28 April 1952.Japan-United States Security Treaty

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