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ARTICLE 2
Japan hereby renounces any claim to sovereignty over, and all right, title and interest in Korea, and undertakes to recognise and respect all such arrangements as may be made by or under the auspices of the United Nations regarding the sovereignty and independence of Korea.
ARTICLE 3
Japan hereby cedes to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in full Sovereignty the Kurile Islands, and that portion of South Sakhalin over which Japan formerly exercised sovereignty.
ARTICLE 4
Japan hereby cedes to China, in full sovereignty, the Island of Formosa and the Pescadores Islands.
ARTICLE 5
1. Japan renounces sovereignty over, and all right, title and interest in the Ryukyu Bonin and Volcano Islands, and Marcus Island.
2. Japan takes note of the intention of the United States Government to negotiate a United Nations trusteeship agreement in respect of the Ryukyu and Bonin Islands when this present treaty has come into force.
ARTICLE 6
Japan renounces all rights, titles, interests and claims to territories or islands formerly administered by her under League of Nations mandate, and all other rights, titles, interests and claims deriving from the League of Nations mandate system or from any undertakings given in connexion therewith, together with all special rights of the Japanese State in respect of any territory now or formerly under mandate.
ARTICLE 7
Japan renounces all political and territorial claims in or relative to the Antarctic Continent and the islands adjacent thereto, and undertakes to forego and not to assert any such claims in the future.
ARTICLE 8
Japan renounces on behalf of the Japanese Government and Japanese nationals all rights, titles and interests in and all claims in respect of any property which is or was situated in any of the territories mentioned in Articles 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7.
Part II.-Political Clauses
Section I-Undesirable Political Societies
ARTICLE 9
Japan which, in accordance with the directives issued by the Supreme Com- mander for the Allied Powers (Memorandum No. A.G. 091 (4th January, 1946) G.S., &c.) has taken measures to dissolve all ultra-Nationalist and terrorist societies and organisations in Japan, shall not permit the resurgence on Japanese territory of such societies and organisations, whether political, military or para-military, or of any other society or organisation whose purpose it is-
(a) To deprive the people of their democratic rights.
(b) To perpetuate militarism or ultra-nationalism in Japan.
(c) To alter the policy of the Japanese Government by assassination of terrorism or the encouragement or justification of a resort to such methods.
Page To oppose the free exchange of intellectual or sultural ideas between Japan
and foreign countries.