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Declaration (I) by the Government of Japan

8 September 1951

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D E C L A R A T I O N

    With respect to the Treaty of Peace signed this day, the Government of Japan makes the following Declaration:

    Japan will recognise any Commission, Delegation, or other Organisation authorised by any of the Allied Powers to identify, list, maintain, or regulate its war graves, cemeteries, and memorials in Japanese territory; will facilitate the work of such Organisations; an will, in respect to the abovementioned war graves, cemeteries, and memorials, enter into negotiations for the conclusion of such agreements as may prove necessary with the Allied Power concerned, or with any Commission, Delegation, or other Organisation authorised by it.

    Japan trusts that the Allied Powers will enter into discussions with the Japanese Government with a view to arrangements being made for the maintenance of any Japanese war graves or cemeteries which may exist in the territories of the Allied Powers and which it is desired to be preserved.

DONE at the city of San Francisco this Eighth day of September 1951.

Shigeru YOSHIDA
Hayato IKEDA
Gizo TOMABECHI
Niro HOSHIJIMA
Muneyoshi TOKUGAWA
Hisato ICHIMADA

 

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Source: United Nations Treaty Series 1952 (reg. no. 1832), pp. 160-164.