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APPENDIX 4<br />

TREATY OF PEACE WITH JAPAN 1<br />

CHAPTER II, TERRITORY<br />

Article 2:<br />

• Japan, recogniz<strong>in</strong>g the <strong>in</strong>dependence of Korea,<br />

renounces all right, title <strong>and</strong> claim to Korea, <strong>in</strong>clud<strong>in</strong>g<br />

the isl<strong>and</strong>s of Quelpart, Port Hamilton,<br />

<strong>and</strong> Dagelet.<br />

• Japan renounces all right, title <strong>and</strong> claim to Formosa<br />

<strong>and</strong> the Pescadores.<br />

• Japan renounces all right, title <strong>and</strong> claim to the<br />

Kurile Isl<strong>and</strong>s, <strong>and</strong> to that portion of Sakhal<strong>in</strong><br />

<strong>and</strong> the isl<strong>and</strong>s adjacent to it over which Japan<br />

acquired sovereignty as a consequence of the<br />

Treaty of Portsmouth of September 5, 1905.<br />

• Japan renounces all right, title <strong>and</strong> claim <strong>in</strong> connection<br />

with the League of Nations M<strong>and</strong>ate<br />

System, <strong>and</strong> the accepts the action of the <strong>United</strong><br />

Nations Security Council of 2 April 1947,<br />

extend<strong>in</strong>g the trusteeship system to the Pacific<br />

Isl<strong>and</strong>s formerly under m<strong>and</strong>ate to Japan.<br />

• Japan renounces all claims to any right or title<br />

to or <strong>in</strong>terest <strong>in</strong> connection with any part of the<br />

Antarctic area, whether deriv<strong>in</strong>g from the activities<br />

of Japanese national or otherwise.<br />

• Japan renounces all right, title <strong>and</strong> claim to the<br />

Spratly Isl<strong>and</strong>s <strong>and</strong> to the Paracel Isl<strong>and</strong>s.<br />

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