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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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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While the San Francisco Treaty ended six years and eight months of official allied occupation and absolute authority of the GHQ, the U.S.-Japan Security Treaty signed on the same day kept Okinawa under U.S. extraterritorial jurisdiction and control, denying Japanese sovereignty for another 20 years.

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