Japan signs San Francisco Peace Treaty
September 8, 1951
Japan and forty-eight Allied nations signed a formal peace treaty ending the Pacific War, seven years after V-J Day. The Soviet Union refused to sign. The United States kept Okinawa and gained basing rights that remain a source of Japanese domestic friction seventy years later. Sovereign Japan rejoined the international order.
In context
Also in 1951 (3 other events on record)
- Catcher in the Rye published · North America · Culture
- Truman fires MacArthur · North America · Politics
- Twenty-second Amendment ratified · North America · Politics
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