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Line 56: The document officially renounces [[Japan]]'s treaty rights derived from the [[Boxer Protocol]] of 1901 and its rights to [[Korea]], Formosa ([[Taiwan]]) and the [[Pescadores]], [[Hong Kong]] (then a British colony), the [[Kuril Islands]], the [[Spratly Islands]], [[Antarctica]] and [[Sakhalin]] Island. Article 3 of the treaty formally put the [[Bonin Islands]] and the [[Ryukyu Islands]], which included [[Okinawa]] and the [[Amami Islands|Amami]], [[Miyako-jima|Miyako]] and [[Yaeyama Islands]] groups, under [[United States|U.S.]] trusteeship. The Amami Islands were eventually restored to Japan on December 25, 1953, as well as the By Article 11 Japan accepted the judgments of the [[International Military Tribunal for the Far East]] and of other Allied War Crimes Courts both within and outside Japan and agreed to carry out the sentences imposed thereby upon Japanese nationals imprisoned in Japan. Line 62: The document further set guidelines for repatriation of prisoners of war and renounces future military aggression under the guidelines set by the [[UN Charter]]. The document nullifies prior treaties and lays down the framework for Japan's current status of retaining a military that is purely defensive in nature. There is also some ambiguity as to over which islands Japan has renounced sovereignty. This has led to both the [[Kuril Islands dispute The [[Treaty of Taipei]] between Japan and the Republic of China acknowledged the terms of the San Francisco Treaty but added that all residents of Taiwan and the Pescadores were nationals of the Republic of China. Some supporters of [[Taiwan independence]] argue that the language in San Francisco Peace Treaty proves the notion that Taiwan is not a part of China, for it does not explicitly state the sovereignty status of Taiwan after Japanese renunciation. In 1955, [[U.S. Secretary of State]] [[John Foster Dulles]], co-author of San Francisco Peace Treaty, affirmed that the treaty ceded Taiwan to no one; that Japan "merely renounced sovereignty over Taiwan".<ref name=Dulles1955/> Dulles said that America "cannot, therefore, admit that the disposition of Taiwan is merely an internal problem ==Compensation to Allied civilians and POWs== | |||