Page 211 7. The Allied Powers recognise that Japan as a sovereign nation possesses what the Charter of the United Nations refers to as the inherent right of individual or collective self-defence, and that Japan may voluntarily enter into a collective security arrangement or arrangements participated in by one or more of the Allied Powers. Such arrangements shall be designed solely for security against armed attack.
(NOTE.--The foregoing suggestions are recognised as being not in themselves complete with respect to security and are to be supplemented in the light of the outcome of current exchanges of views designed to maintain security in the Pacific and to enable Japan hereafter to contribute to its security without developing armament which could be an offensive threat or serve other than to promote peace and security in accordance with the purposes and principles of the United Nations Charter.)
11. Japan renounces all special rights and interests in China.
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1. Japan hereby renounces all rights, title and interests resulting from the agreement with Germany dated 20th January, 1930, the convention dated 20th January, 1930, and its annexes concerning the Bank for International Settle- ments and the Trust Agreement dated 17th May, 1930.
2. Japan undertakes to notify to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs at Paris, within six months of the coming into force of the present treaty, her renunciation of the rights, title and interests referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article.
ARTICLE 18
Other Multilateral Agreements and Conventions
Except as otherwise provided in the treaty Japan recognises the full force of all multilateral international instruments to which she was a party on 1st September, 1939, and will immediately on the coming into force of the present treaty resume all her rights and obligations under those instruments subject only to the provisions in the matter of industrial literary and artistic property set out in Annex II. Where, however, participation in any instrument involves membership of an international organisation of which Japan ceased to be a member on or after 1st September, 1939, the provisions of the present Article shall be dependent on Japan's readmission to membership of the organisation concerned.
ARTICLE 19
[NOTE. This Article may appropriately form the subject of a voluntary declara- tion by Japan either separate from or annexed to the peace treaty.] Japan shall within six months of the coming into force of the present treaty formally accede to--
(1) the International Convention for the regulation of whaling signed at Washington on 2nd December, 1946, as subsequently amended;
(2) The Protocol amending the 1931 Narcotics Convention signed at New
York on 11th December, 1946.
(3) The Protocol on the Traffic in Synthetic Drugs signed at Paris on
19th November, 1948.
(4) Customs Formalities Convention 1923.
(5) Convention relating to economic statistics 1928 and Protocol 1948.
(6) Agreement on false indications of origin 1934.
(7) The Convention on International Civil Aviation signed at Chicago on
7th December, 1944.
(8) The International Air Services Transit Agreement signed at Chicago on
7th December, 1944.
(9) Each of the four Conventions on conduct in time of war signed at Geneva
on 12th August, 1949.
Section V.-Bilateral Treaties
ARTICLE 20
1. Each Allied or Associated Power will notify Japan within a period of twelve months from the coming into force of the present Treaty which of its non-political pre-war bilateral treaties with Japan it desires to keep in force or to revive, subject to such amendments as may be necessary in order to ensure conformity with the present Treaty.
2. All such treaties so notified shall resume their force three months after the date of notification and shall be registered with the Secretariat of the United Nations in accordance with Article 102 of the Charter of the United Nations. Such notification may stipulate that any treaty shall not continue in force or be revived in respect of its application to a territory for whose international relations the Allied or Associated Power concerned is responsible until that Power shall give notice to Japan that zitosha be so continued in force or revivedge 212 of 587
3. All such treaties not so notified shall be regarded as abrogated.
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