San FranciscoTreatyofPeace with Japan was one of the importantsteps 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.
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 SanFranciscopeacetreaty in 1952.