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TREATY OF PEACE
WITH JAPAN
WHEREAS the Allied
Powers and Japan are resolved that henceforth their relations shall
be those of nations which, as sovereign equals, cooperate in
friendly association to promote their common welfare and to maintain
international peace and security, and are therefore desirous of
concluding a Treaty of Peace which will settle questions still
outstanding as a result of the existence of a state of war between
them;
WHEREAS Japan for its
part declares its intention to apply for membership in the United
Nations and in all circumstances to conform to the principles of the
Charter of the United Nations; to strive to realize the objectives
of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; to seek to create
within Japan conditions of stability and well-being as defined in
Articles 55 and 56 of the Charter of the United Nations and already
initiated by post-surrender Japanese legislation; and in public and
private trade and commerce to conform to internationally accepted
fair practices;
WHEREAS the Allied
Powers welcome the intentions of Japan set out in the foregoing
paragraph;
THE
ALLIED POWERS AND
JAPAN have therefore determined to conclude the
present Treaty of Peace, and have accordingly appointed the
undersigned Plenipotentiaries, who, after presentation of their full
powers, found in good and due form, have agreed on the following
provisions:
CHAPTER I
PEACE
Article 1
(a) The state of war between Japan
and each of the Allied Powers is terminated as from the date on
which the present Treaty comes into force between Japan and the
Allied Power concerned as provided for in Article 23.
(b) The Allied Powers recognize the
full sovereignty of the Japanese people over Japan and its
territorial waters.
CHAPTER II
TERRITORY
Article 2
(a) Japan recognizing the
independence of Korea, renounces all right, title and claim to
Korea, including the islands of Quelpart, Port Hamilton and Dagelet.
(b) Japan renounces all
right, title and claim to Formosa and the Pescadores.
(c) Japan renounces all right, title
and claim to the Kurile Islands, and to that portion of Sakhalin and
the islands adjacent to it over which Japan acquired sovereignty as
a consequence of the Treaty of Portsmouth of 5 September 1905.
(d) Japan renounces all right, title
and claim in connection with the League of Nations Mandate System,
and accepts the action of the United Nations Security Council of 2
April 1947, extending the trusteeship system to the Pacific Islands
formerly under mandate to Japan.
(e) Japan renounces all claim to any
right or title to or interest in connection with any part of the
Antarctic area, whether deriving from the activities of Japanese
nationals or otherwise.
(f) Japan renounces all right, title
and claim to the Spratly Islands and to the Paracel Islands.
Article 3
Japan will concur in any proposal of
the United States to the United Nations to place under its
trusteeship system, with the United States as the sole administering
authority, Nansei Shoto south of 29deg. north latitude (including
the Ryukyu Islands and the Daito Islands), Nanpo Shoto south of Sofu
Gan (including the Bonin Islands, Rosario Island and the Volcano
Islands) and Parece Vela and Marcus Island. Pending the making of
such a proposal and affirmative action thereon, the United States
will have the right to exercise all and any powers of
administration, legislation and jurisdiction over the territory and
inhabitants of these islands, including their territorial waters.
Article 4
(a) Subject to the provisions of
paragraph (b) of this Article, the disposition of property of Japan
and of its nationals in the areas referred to in Article 2, and
their claims, including debts, against the authorities presently
administering such areas and the residents (including juridical
persons) thereof, and the disposition in Japan of property of such
authorities and residents, and of claims, including debts, of such
authorities and residents against Japan and its nationals, shall be
the subject of special arrangements between Japan and such
authorities. The property of any of the Allied Powers or its
nationals in the areas referred to in Article 2 shall, insofar as
this has not already been done, be returned by the administering
authority in the condition in which it now exists. (The term
nationals whenever used in the present Treaty includes juridical
persons.)
(b) Japan recognizes the validity of
dispositions of property of Japan and Japanese nationals made by or
pursuant to directives of the United States Military Government in
any of the areas referred to in Articles 2 and 3.
(c) Japanese owned submarine cables
connection Japan with territory removed from Japanese control
pursuant to the present Treaty shall be equally divided, Japan
retaining the Japanese terminal and adjoining half of the cable, and
the detached territory the remainder of the cable and connecting
terminal facilities.
CHAPTER III
SECURITY
Article 5
(a) Japan accepts the obligations
set forth in Article 2 of
the Charter of the United Nations, and in particular the
obligations
(i) to settle its international
disputes by peaceful means in such a manner that international
peace and security, and justice, are not endangered;
(ii) to refrain in its
international relations from the threat or use of force against
the territorial integrity or political independence of any State
or in any other manner inconsistent with the Purposes of the
United Nations;
(iii) to give the United Nations
every assistance in any action it takes in accordance with the
Charter and to refrain from giving assistance to any State against
which the United Nations may take preventive or enforcement
action.
(b) The Allied Powers confirm that
they will be guided by the principles of Article 2 of the Charter of
the United Nations in their relations with Japan.
(c) The Allied Powers for their part
recognize that Japan as a sovereign nation possesses the inherent
right of individual or collective self-defense referred to in Article 51 of
the Charter of the United Nations and that Japan may voluntarily
enter into collective security arrangements.
Article 6
(a) All occupation forces of the
Allied Powers shall be withdrawn from Japan as soon as possible
after the coming into force of the present Treaty, and in any case
not later than 90 days thereafter. Nothing in this provision shall,
however, prevent the stationing or retention of foreign armed forces
in Japanese territory under or in consequence of any bilateral or
multilateral agreements which have been or may be made between one
or more of the Allied Powers, on the one hand, and Japan on the
other.
(b) The provisions of Article 9 of
the Potsdam Proclamation of 26 July 1945, dealing with the
return of Japanese military forces to their homes, to the extent not
already completed, will be carried out.
(c) All Japanese property for which
compensation has not already been paid, which was supplied for the
use of the occupation forces and which remains in the possession of
those forces at the time of the coming into force of the present
Treaty, shall be returned to the Japanese Government within the same
90 days unless other arrangements are made by mutual agreement.
CHAPTER IV
POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC
CLAUSES
Article 7
(a) Each of the Allied
Powers, within one year after the present Treaty has come into force
between it and Japan, will notify Japan which of its prewar
bilateral treaties or conventions with Japan it wishes to continue
in force or revive, and any treaties or conventions so notified
shall continue in force or by revived subject only to such
amendments as may be necessary to ensure conformity with the present
Treaty. The treaties and conventions so notified shall be considered
as having been continued in force or revived three months after the
date of notification and shall be registered with the Secretariat of
the United Nations. All such treaties and conventions as to which
Japan is not so notified shall be regarded as abrogated.
(b) Any notification made under
paragraph (a) of this Article may except from the operation or
revival of a treaty or convention any territory for the
international relations of which the notifying Power is responsible,
until three months after the date on which notice is given to Japan
that such exception shall cease to apply.
Article 8
(a) Japan will recognize the full
force of all treaties now or hereafter concluded by the Allied
Powers for terminating the state of war initiated on 1 September
1939, as well as any other arrangements by the Allied Powers for or
in connection with the restoration of peace. Japan also accepts the
arrangements made for terminating the former League of Nations and
Permanent Court of International Justice.
(b) Japan renounces all such rights
and interests as it may derive from being a signatory power of the
Conventions of St. Germain-en-Laye of 10 September 1919, and the
Straits Agreement of Montreux of 20 July 1936, and from Article 16
of the Treaty of Peace with Turkey signed at Lausanne on 24 July
1923.
(c) Japan renounces all rights,
title and interests acquired under, and is discharged from all
obligations resulting from, the Agreement between Germany and the
Creditor Powers of 20 January 1930 and its Annexes, including the
Trust Agreement, dated 17 May 1930, the Convention of 20 January
1930, respecting the Bank for International Settlements; and the
Statutes of the Bank for International Settlements. Japan will
notify to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Paris within six months
of the first coming into force of the present Treaty its
renunciation of the rights, title and interests referred to in this
paragraph.
Article 9
Japan will enter promptly into
negotiations with the Allied Powers so desiring for the conclusion
of bilateral and multilateral agreements providing for the
regulation or limitation of fishing and the conservation and
development of fisheries on the high seas.
Article 10
Japan renounces all special rights
and interests in China, including all benefits and privileges
resulting from the provisions of the final Protocol signed at Peking
on 7 September 1901, and all annexes, notes and documents
supplementary thereto, and agrees to the abrogation in respect to
Japan of the said protocol, annexes, notes and documents.
Article 11
Japan accepts the judgments of the
International Military Tribunal for the Far East and of other Allied
War Crimes Courts both within and outside Japan, and will carry out
the sentences imposed thereby upon Japanese nationals imprisoned in
Japan. The power to grant clemency, to reduce sentences and to
parole with respect to such prisoners may not be exercised except on
the decision of the Government or Governments which imposed the
sentence in each instance, and on recommendation of Japan. In the
case of persons sentenced by the International Military Tribunal for
the Far East, such power may not be exercised except on the decision
of a majority of the Governments represented on the Tribunal, and on
the recommendation of Japan.
Article 12
(a) Japan declares its readiness
promptly to enter into negotiations for the conclusion with each of
the Allied Powers of treaties or agreements to place their trading,
maritime and other commercial relations on a stable and friendly
basis.
(b) Pending the conclusion of the
relevant treaty or agreement, Japan will, during a period of four
years from the first coming into force of the present Treaty
(1) accord to each of the Allied
Powers, its nationals, products and vessels
(i) most-favoured-nation
treatment with respect to customs duties, charges, restrictions
and other regulations on or in connection with the importation
and exportation of goods;
(ii) national treatment with
respect to shipping, navigation and imported goods, and with
respect to natural and juridical persons and their interests -
such treatment to include all matters pertaining to the levying
and collection of taxes, access to the courts, the making and
performance of contracts, rights to property (tangible and
intangible), participating in juridical entities constituted
under Japanese law, and generally the conduct of all kinds of
business and professional activities;
(2) ensure that external purchases
and sales of Japanese state trading enterprises shall be based
solely on commercial considerations.
(c) In respect to any matter,
however, Japan shall be obliged to accord to an Allied Power
national treatment, or most-favored-nation treatment, only to the
extent that the Allied Power concerned accords Japan national
treatment or most-favored-nation treatment, as the case may be, in
respect of the same matter. The reciprocity envisaged in the
foregoing sentence shall be determined, in the case of products,
vessels and juridical entities of, and persons domiciled in, any
non-metropolitan territory of an Allied Power, and in the case of
juridical entities of, and persons domiciled in, any state or
province of an Allied Power having a federal government, by
reference to the treatment accorded to Japan in such territory,
state or province.
(d) In the application of this
Article, a discriminatory measure shall not be considered to
derogate from the grant of national or most-favored-nation
treatment, as the case may be, if such measure is based on an
exception customarily provided for in the commercial treaties of the
party applying it, or on the need to safeguard that party's external
financial position or balance of payments (except in respect to
shiping and navigation), or on the need to maintain its essential
security interests, and provided such measure is proportionate to
the circumstances and not applied in an arbitrary or unreasonable
manner.
(e) Japan's obligations under this
Article shall not be affected by the exercise of any Allied rights
under Article 14 of the present Treaty; nor shall the provisions of
this Article be understood as limiting the undertakings assumed by
Japan by virtue of Article 15 of the Treaty.
Article 13
(a) Japan will enter into
negotiations with any of the Allied Powers, promptly upon the
request of such Power or Powers, for the conclusion of bilateral or
multilateral agreements relating to international civil air
transport.
(b) Pending the conclusion of such
agreement or agreements, Japan will, during a period of four years
from the first coming into force of the present Treaty, extend to
such Power treatment not less favorable with respect to air-traffic
rights and privileges than those exercised by any such Powers at the
date of such coming into force, and will accord complete equality of
opportunity in respect to the operation and development of air
services.
(c) Pending its becoming a party to
the Convention on International Civil Aviation in accordance with
Article 93 thereof, Japan will give effect to the provisions of that
Convention applicable to the international navigation of aircraft,
and will give effect to the standards, practices and procedures
adopted as annexes to the Convention in accordance with the terms of
the Convention.
CHAPTER V
CLAIMS AND PROPERTY
Article 14
(a) It is recognized that Japan
should pay reparations to the Allied Powers for the damage and
suffering caused by it during the war. Nevertheless it is also
recognized that the resources of Japan are not presently sufficient,
if it is to maintain a viable economy, to make complete reparation
for all such damage and suffering and at the same time meet its
other obligations.
Therefore,
1. 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. Such arrangements shall
avoid the imposition of additional liabilities on other Allied
Powers, and, where the manufacturing of raw materials is called
for, they shall be supplied by the Allied Powers in question, so
as not to throw any foreign exchange burden upon Japan.
2. (I) Subject to the provisions
of subparagraph (II) below, each of the Allied Powers shall have
the right to seize, retain, liquidate or otherwise dispose of all
property, rights and interests of
(a) Japan and Japanese nationals,
(b) persons acting for or on
behalf of Japan or Japanese nationals, and
(c) entities owned or controlled
by Japan or Japanese nationals,
which on the first coming into
force of the present Treaty were subject to its jurisdiction. The
property, rights and interests specified in this subparagraph
shall include those now blocked, vested or in the possession or
under the control of enemy property authorities of Allied Powers,
which belong to, or were held or managed on behalf of, any of the
persons or entities mentioned in (a), (b) or (c) above at the time
such assets came under the controls of such authorities.
(II) The following
shall be excepted from the right specified in subparagraph (I)
above:
(i) property of Japanese natural
persons who during the war resided with the permission of the
Government concerned in the territory of one of the Allied Powers,
other than territory occupied by Japan, except property subjected
to restrictions during the war and not released from such
restrictions as of the date of the first coming into force of the
present Treaty;
(ii) all real property, furniture
and fixtures owned by the Government of Japan and used for
diplomatic or consular purposes, and all personal furniture and
furnishings and other private property not of an investment nature
which was normally necessary for the carrying out of diplomatic
and consular functions, owned by Japanese diplomatic and consular
personnel;
(iii) property belonging to
religious bodies or private charitable institutions and used
exclusively for religious or charitable purposes;
(iv) property, rights and
interests which have come within its jurisdiction in consequence
of the resumption of trade and financial relations subsequent to 2
September 1945, between the country concerned and Japan, except
such as have resulted from transactions contrary to the laws of
the Allied Power concerned;
(v) obligations of Japan or
Japanese nationals, any right, title or interest in tangible
property located in Japan, interests in enterprises organized
under the laws of Japan, or any paper evidence thereof; provided
that this exception shall only apply to obligations of Japan and
its nationals expressed in Japanese currency.
(III) Property referred to in
exceptions (i) through (v) above shall be returned subject to
reasonable expenses for its preservation and administration. If
any such property has been liquidated the proceeds shall be
returned instead.
(IV) The right to seize, retain,
liquidate or otherwise dispose of property as provided in
subparagraph (I) above shall be exercised in accordance with the
laws of the Allied Power concerned, and the owner shall have only
such rights as may be given him by those laws.
(V) The Allied Powers agree to
deal with Japanese trademarks and literary and artistic property
rights on a basis as favorable to Japan as circumstances ruling in
each country will permit.
(b) Except as otherwise provided in
the present Treaty, the Allied Powers waive all reparations claims
of the Allied Powers, other claims of the Allied Powers and their
nationals arising out of any actions taken by Japan and its
nationals in the course of the prosecution of the war, and claims of
the Allied Powers for direct military costs of occupation.
Article 15
(a) Upon application made within
nine months of the coming into force of the present Treaty between
Japan and the Allied Power concerned, Japan will, within six months
of the date of such application, return the property, tangible and
intangible, and all rights or interests of any kind in Japan of each
Allied Power and its nationals which was within Japan at any time
between 7 December 1941 and 2 September 1945, unless the owner has
freely disposed thereof without duress or fraud. Such property shall
be returned free of all encumbrances and charges to which it may
have become subject because of the war, and without any charges for
its return. Property whose return is not applied for by or on behalf
of the owner or by his Government within the prescribed period may
be disposed of by the Japanese Government as it may determine. In
cases where such property was within Japan on 7 December 1941, and
cannot be returned or has suffered injury or damage as a result of
the war, compensation will be made on terms not less favorable than
the terms provided in the draft Allied Powers Property Compensation
Law approved by the Japanese Cabinet on 13 July 1951.
(b) With respect to industrial
property rights impaired during the war, Japan will continue to
accord to the Allied Powers and their nationals benefits no less
than those heretofore accorded by Cabinet Orders No. 309 effective 1
September 1949, No. 12 effective 28 January 1950, and No. 9
effective 1 February 1950, all as now amended, provided such
nationals have applied for such benefits within the time limits
prescribed therein.
(c) (i) Japan acknowledges that the
literary and artistic property rights which existed in Japan on 6
December 1941, in respect to the published and unpublished works of
the Allied Powers and their nationals have continued in force since
that date, and recognizes those rights which have arisen, or but for
the war would have arisen, in Japan since that date, by the
operation of any conventions and agreements to which Japan was a
party on that date, irrespective of whether or not such conventions
or agreements were abrogated or suspended upon or since the outbreak
of war by the domestic law of Japan or of the Allied Power
concerned.
(ii) Without the need for
application by the proprietor of the right and without the payment
of any fee or compliance with any other formality, the period from 7
December 1941 until the coming into force of the present Treaty
between Japan and the Allied Power concerned shall be excluded from
the running of the normal term of such rights; and such period, with
an additional period of six months, shall be excluded from the time
within which a literary work must be translated into Japanese in
order to obtain translating rights in Japan.
Article 16
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 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.
Article 17
(a) Upon the request of any of the
Allied Powers, the Japanese Government shall review and revise in
conformity with international law any decision or order of the
Japanese Prize Courts in cases involving ownership rights of
nationals of that Allied Power and shall supply copies of all
documents comprising the records of these cases, including the
decisions taken and orders issued. In any case in which such review
or revision shows that restoration is due, the provisions of Article
15 shall apply to the property concerned.
(b) The Japanese Government shall
take the necessary measures to enable nationals of any of the Allied
Powers at any time within one year from the coming into force of the
present Treaty between Japan and the Allied Power concerned to
submit to the appropriate Japanese authorities for review any
judgment given by a Japanese court between 7 December 1941 and such
coming into force, in any proceedings in which any such national was
unable to make adequate presentation of his case either as plaintiff
or defendant. The Japanese Government shall provide that, where the
national has suffered injury by reason of any such judgment, he
shall be restored in the position in which he was before the
judgment was given or shall be afforded such relief as may be just
and equitable in the circumstances.
Article 18
(a) It is recognized that the
intervention of the state of war has not affected the obligation to
pay pecuniary debts arising out of obligations and contracts
(including those in respect of bonds) which existed and rights which
were acquired before the existence of a state of war, and which are
due by the Government or nationals of Japan to the Government or
nationals of one of the Allied Powers, or are due by the Government
or nationals of one of the Allied Powers to the Government or
nationals of Japan. The intervention of a state of war shall equally
not be regarded as affecting the obligation to consider on their
merits claims for loss or damage to property or for personal injury
or death which arose before the existence of a state of war, and
which may be presented or re-presented by the Government of one of
the Allied Powers to the Government of Japan, or by the Government
of Japan to any of the Governments of the Allied Powers. The
provisions of this paragraph are without prejudice to the rights
conferred by Article 14.
(b) Japan affirms its liability for
the prewar external debt of the Japanese State and for debts of
corporate bodies subsequently declared to be liabilities of the
Japanese State, and expresses its intention to enter into
negotiations at an early date with its creditors with respect to the
resumption of payments on those debts; to encourage negotiations in
respect to other prewar claims and obligations; and to facilitate
the transfer of sums accordingly.
Article 19
(a) Japan waives all claims of Japan
and its nationals against the Allied Powers and their nationals
arising out of the war or out of actions taken because of the
existence of a state of war, and waives all claims arising from the
presence, operations or actions of forces or authorities of any of
the Allied Powers in Japanese territory prior to the coming into
force of the present Treaty.
(b) The foregoing waiver includes
any claims arising out of actions taken by any of the Allied Powers
with respect to Japanese ships between 1 September 1939 and the
coming into force of the present Treaty, as well as any claims and
debts arising in respect to Japanese prisoners of war and civilian
internees in the hands of the Allied Powers, but does not include
Japanese claims specificially recognized in the laws of any Allied
Power enacted since 2 September 1945.
(c) Subject to reciprocal
renunciation, the Japanese Government also renounces all claims
(including debts) against Germany and German nationals on behalf of
the Japanese Government and Japanese nationals, including
intergovernmental claims and claims for loss or damage sustained
during the war, but excepting (a) claims in respect of contracts
entered into and rights acquired before 1 September 1939, and (b)
claims arising out of trade and financial relations between Japan
and Germany after 2 September 1945. Such renunciation shall not
prejudice actions taken in accordance with Articles 16 and 20 of the
present Treaty.
(d) Japan recognizes the validity of
all acts and omissions done during the period of occupation under or
in consequence of directives of the occupation authorities or
authorized by Japanese law at that time, and will take no action
subjecting Allied nationals to civil or criminal liability arising
out of such acts or omissions.
Article 20
Japan will take all necessary
measures to ensure such disposition of German assets in Japan as has
been or may be determined by those powers entitled under the
Protocol of the proceedings of the Berlin Conference of 1945 to
dispose of those assets, and pending the final disposition of such
assets will be responsible for the conservation and administration
thereof.
Article 21
Notwithstanding the provisions of
Article 25 of the present Treaty, China shall be entitled to the
benefits of Articles 10 and 14(a)2; and Korea to the benefits of
Articles 2, 4, 9 and 12 of the present Treaty.
CHAPTER VI
SETTLEMENT OF DISPUTES
Article 22
If in the opinion of any Party to
the present Treaty there has arisen a dispute concerning the
interpretation or execution of the Treaty, which is not settled by
reference to a special claims tribunal or by other agreed means, the
dispute shall, at the request of any party thereto, be referred for
decision to the International Court of Justice. Japan and those
Allied Powers which are not already parties to the Statute of the
International Court of Justice will deposit with the Registrar of
the Court, at the time of their respective ratifications of the
present Treaty, and in conformity with the resolution of the United
Nations Security Council, dated 15 October 1946, a general
declaration accepting the jurisdiction, without special agreement,
of the Court generally in respect to all disputes of the character
referred to in this Article.
CHAPTER VII
FINAL CLAUSES
Article 23
(a) The present Treaty shall be
ratified by the States which sign it, including Japan, and will come
into force for all the States which have then ratified it, when
instruments of ratification have been deposited by Japan and by a
majority, including the United States of America as the principal
occupying Power, of the following States, namely Australia, Canada,
Ceylon, France, Indonesia, the Kingdom of the Netherlands, New
Zealand, Pakistan, the Republic of the Philippines, the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and the United States
of America. The present Treaty shall come into force of each State
which subsequently ratifies it, on the date of the deposit of its
instrument of ratification.
(b) If the Treaty has not come into
force within nine months after the date of the deposit of Japan's
ratification, any State which has ratified it may bring the Treaty
into force between itself and Japan by a notification to that effect
given to the Governments of Japan and the United States of America
not later than three years after the date of deposit of Japan's
ratification.
Article 24
All instruments of ratification
shall be deposited with the Government of the United States of
America which will notify all the signatory States of each such
deposit, of the date of the coming into force of the Treaty under
paragraph (a) of Article 23, and of any notifications made under
paragraph (b) of Article 23.
Article 25
For the purposes of the
present Treaty the Allied Powers shall be the States at war with
Japan, or any State which previously formed a part of the territory
of a State named in Article 23, provided that in each case the State
concerned has signed and ratified the Treaty. Subject to the
provisions of Article 21, the present Treaty shall not confer any
rights, titles or benefits on any State which is not an Allied Power
as herein defined; nor shall any right, title or interest of Japan
be deemed to be diminished or prejudiced by any provision of the
Treaty in favour of a State which is not an Allied Power as so
defined.
Article 26
Japan will be prepared to conclude
with any State which signed or adhered to the United Nations
Declaration of 1 January 1942, and which is at war with Japan, or
with any State which previously formed a part of the territory of a
State named in Article 23, which is not a signatory of the present
Treaty, a bilateral Treaty of Peace on the same or substantially the
same terms as are provided for in the present Treaty, but this
obligation on the part of Japan will expire three years after the
first coming into force of the present Treaty. Should Japan make a
peace settlement or war claims settlement with any State granting
that State greater advantages than those provided by the present
Treaty, those same advantages shall be extended to the parties to
the present Treaty.
Article 27
The present Treaty shall be
deposited in the archives of the Government of the United States of
America which shall furnish each signatory State with a certified
copy thereof.
IN FAITH WHEREOF the
undersigned Plenipotentiaries have signed the present Treaty.
DONE at the city of
San Francisco this eighth day of September 1951, in the English,
French, and Spanish languages, all being equally authentic, and in
the Japanese language.
For Argentina:
Hipólito J.
PAZ
For Australia:
Percy C.
SPENDER
For Belgium:
Paul VAN
ZEELAND
SILVERCRUYS
For Bolivia:
Luis
GUACHALLA
For Brazil:
Carlos
MARTINS
A. DE
MELLO-FRANCO
For Cambodia:
PHLENG
For Canada:
Lester B.
PEARSON
R.W.
MAYHEW
For Ceylon:
J.R.
JAYEWARDENE
G.C.S.
COREA
R.G.
SENANAYAKE
For Chile:
F. NIETO
DEL
RÍO
For Colombia:
Cipríano RESTREPO
JARAMILLO
Sebastián
OSPINA
For Costa Rica:
J. Rafael
OREAMUNO
V. VARGAS
Luis
DOBLES SÁNCHEZ
For Cuba:
O. GANS
L.
MACHADO
Joaquín
MEYER
For the Dominican
Republic:
V.
ORDÓÑEZ
Luis F.
THOMEN
For Ecuador:
A.
QUEVEDO
R.G.
VALENZUELA
For Egypt:
Kamil A.
RAHIM
For El Salvador:
Héctor DAVID
CASTRO
Luis RIVAS
PALACIOS
For Ethiopia:
Men
YAYEJIJRAD
For France:
SCHUMANN
H.
BONNET
Paul-Émile
NAGGIAR
For Greece:
A.G.
POLITIS
For Guatemala:
E. CASTILLO
A.
A.M. ORELLANA
J.
MENDOZA
For Haiti:
Jacques N.
LÉGER
Gust.
LARAQUE
For Honduras:
J.E.
VALENZUELA
Roberto GÁLVEZ
B.
Raúl ALVARADO
T.
For Indonesia:
Ahmad
SUBARDJO
For Iran:
A.G.
ARDALAN
For Iraq:
A.I.
BAKR
For Laos:
SAVANG
For Lebanon:
Charles
MALIK
For Liberia:
Gabriel L.
DENNIS
James
ANDERSON
Raymond HORACE
J.
Rudolf GRIMES
For the Grand Duchy of
Luxembourg:
Hugues LE
GALLAIS
For Mexico:
Rafael
DE LA
COLINA
Gustavo DÍAZ
ORDAZ
A.P.
GASGA
For the Netherlands:
D.U.
STIKKER
J.H. VAN
ROIJEN
For New Zealand:
C.
BERENDSEN
For Nicaragua:
G. SEVILLA
SACASA
Gustavo
MANZANARES
For Norway:
Wilhelm Munthe
MORGENSTERNE
For Pakistan:
ZAFRULLAH
KHAN
For Panama:
Ignacio
MOLINO
José A. REMON
Alfredo
ALEMÁN
J.
CORDOVEZ
For Peru:
Luis Oscar
BOETTNER
For the Republic of the
Philippines:
Carlos P.
RÓMULO
J.M. ELIZALDE
Vicente
FRANCISCO
Diosdado
MACAPAGAL
Emiliano T.
TIRONA
V.G.
SINCO
For Saudi Arabia:
Asad
AL-FAQIH
For Syria:
F.
EL-KHOURI
For Turkey:
Feridun C.
ERKIN
For the Union of South
Africa:
G.P.
JOOSTE
For the United Kingdom of
Great
Britain and Northern Ireland:
Herbert
MORRISON
Kenneth
YOUNGER
Oliver
FRANKS
For the United States of
America:
Dean
ACHESON
John Foster
DULLES
Alexander WILEY
John
J. SPARKMAN
For Uruguay:
José A.
MORA
For Venezuela:
Antonio M.
ARAUJO
R. GALLEGOS
M.
For Viet-Nam:
T.V. HUU
T.
VINH
D.
THANH
BUU
KINH
For Japan:
Shigeru
YOSHIDA
Hayato IKEDA
Gizo
TOMABECHI
Niro
HOSHIJIMA
Muneyoshi
TOKUGAWA
Hisato
ICHIMADA
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