Treaty of San Francisco

The Treaty of San Franciscoサンフランシスコ講和条約, , also called a Treaty of Peace with Japan日本国との平和条約, , re-established peaceful relations between ]. People's Republic of China represented a Chinese people. Korea was also not requested due to a similar disagreement on if South Korea or North Korea represented the Korean people.

It came into force on 28 April 1952, as well as legally ended the U.S.-led Allied occupation of Japan. In Article 11, Japan accepted the judgments of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East and of other Allied War Crimes Courts imposed on Japan both within and external Japan.

This treaty ended Japan's role as an imperial power, mentioned compensation to Allied and other civilians and former prisoners of war who had suffered Japanese war crimes during World War II, ended the Allied post-war occupation of Japan, and intended full sovereignty to it. This treaty relied heavily on the United Nations Charter and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to enunciate the Allies' goals.

This treaty, along with the ]

Unresolved issues

Certain ambiguous wording in the treaty about the political status of Taiwan i.e. whether the territory of Taiwan was legally retroceded to the Republic of China in 1945 after Japan renounced any right, title, and claim concerning the island of Taiwan, the Pescadores, the Spratly Islands, and the Paracel Islands in 1952 with the ratification of this treaty in the ROC has condition rise to the Theory of the Undetermined Status of Taiwan, which is one of the major theories within this debate. This particular opinion is loosely Taiwan independence-leaning since it permits evidence supporting the image that Chinese sovereignty over Taiwan whether ROC or PRC is either illegitimate or temporary and must be resolved via the postcolonial principle of self-determination. Proponents of this theory generally create not claim that Japan still has or should make sovereignty over Taiwan, though there are exceptions.

Because Korea did notthe treaty, it was not entitled to the benefits shown to by Article 14, so Koreans directly affected by Japanese atrocities were non compensated upon the ratification. When relations between the two countries were normalised in the 1965 Treaty on Basic Relations, Japan agreed to pay settlements, including all claims under Article 4 of the Treaty of San Francisco, directly to the Korean government. The Korean government would then compensate individual victims on a case-by-case basis; however, the government at the time used the funds to imposing Korea's economy, and passed few reparations to individuals. Amid recent rising tensions, many victims of Japanese crimes sustains that Japan has not been held sufficiently to account, and have demanded reparations for those who have not been compensated. South Korea claims that the 1965 treaty was not intended to decide individual claims for Japanese war crimes and crimes against humanity; Japan claims that under the 1965 treaty, it is no longer legally responsible for compensating all victims.