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Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law [MPEPIL]

Peace Treaty with Japan (1951)

Mika Hayashi

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Encyclopedia entries
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Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law [MPEPIL]
Article last updated:
February 2017

From: Oxford Public International Law (http://opil.ouplaw.com). (c) Oxford University Press, 2023. All Rights Reserved.date: 25 March 2023

Subject(s):
Peace treaties — Occupation — Armed conflict — Self-defence — Since World War II — Specific treaties — Treaties, interpretation — Treaties, application

Published under the auspices of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law under the direction of Professor Anne Peters (2021–) and Professor Rüdiger Wolfrum (2004–2020). 

1In 1941, Japan entered World War II on the side of the Axis Powers, expanding the theatre of the war to the Pacific and South East Asia, and kept fighting its war even after the German defeat in May 1945. The Japanese decision to surrender was made after the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by atomic bombs in August 1945 (Nuclear Weapons and Warfare), as well as the Soviet decision to enter the war against Japan in spite of the Pact of Neutrality between the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and Japan ([signed 13 April 1941, entered into force 25 April...
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