San Francisco Treaty of Peace with Japan was one of the important steps by the US to construct the line of defense along the coast of the west-Pacific Ocean and to carry out the strategy of Cold War.

其中《旧金山对日和约》便是美国力图构建西太平洋防线、实施遏制战略的重要步骤之一。

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The enshrinement of the war criminals remains controversial, not least because it represents a repudiation of the Tokyo trials, the verdict of which the Japanese government officially accepted with the San Francisco peace treaty in 1952.

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It was during last year's election campaign that Mr Abe and his Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) proposed the event to mark the day in 1952 when the San Francisco Peace Treaty took effect, formally ending WWII and the allied occupation.

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After the second world war, in the process of drafting the San Francisco peace treaty, the Republic of Korea requested that Takeshima be included among the territories Japan should renounce, but this was rejected by the United States, and the treaty was signed in 1951.

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