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Japanese submarine cables connecting Japan with territory removed from Japanese control pursuant to the present treaty shall be equally divided, Japan retaining the Japanese terminal and adjoining half of the cable and the detached territory the remainder of the cable and connecting terminal facilities.
9. Japan agrees to enter promptly into negotiations with parties so desiring for the formulation of new bilateral or multilateral agreements for the regulation, conservation and development of high seas fisheries.
CHAPTER VII
Settlement of Disputes
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17. Any dispute between an Allied Power and Japan concerning the interpre- tation or execution of the present treaty, which is not settled through diplomatic channels, shall, at the request of a party to the dispute, be referred for decision to the International Court of Justice. Japan and those Allied Powers which are not already parties to the Statute of the International Court of Justice will deposit with the Registrar of the Court, at the time of their respective ratifications of the present treaty, and in conformity with the resolution of the United Nations Security Council, dated 15th October, 1946, a general declaration accepting the jurisdiction, without special agreement, of the court generally in respect of all disputes of the character referred to in this Article.
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Page 231 facilitate the work of such organisations, and shall in reps the fb587-mentioned war graves, cemeteries and memorials enter into negotiations for the conclusion of such agreements as may prove necessary with the Allied or Associated Power concerned, or with any commission, delegation or other organisation authorised by it.
Definitions
ARTICLE 37
In the present treaty: (a) the term "United Nations following:-
means any of the
(1) Any State which, not having fought against the Allied and Associated Powers in the late war, is or hereafter becomes a member of the United Nations Organisation.
(2) Any State, the territory of which on 2nd September, 1945, formed part of the territories of a State coming under (1), or for the conduct of whose international relations such a State was at that date responsible.
(3) Any State which signed the United Nations Declaration of 1st January,
1942.
(b) The term "nationals" shall be understood to include juridical persons persons wherever the context permits, a juridical person being considered as a national of the State under whose laws it is constituted.
(c) The term "United Nations national " means any person (including juridical persons in the sense of sub-paragraph (b) above) who is a national of a State defined in sub-paragraph (a) above as being comprised in the term "United Nations."
Annexes
ARTICLE 38
The provisions of Annexes II, III, IV and V shall, as in the case of the other annexes, have force and effect as integral parts of the present treaty.
Part X.-Final Clauses
Section 1.-Accession
ARTICLE 39
1. Any member of the United Nations not a signatory to the present treaty which is at war with Japan may, at any time after it has entered into force, accede -to the treaty, and upon accession shall be deemed to be an Associated Power for
the purposes of the treaty.
2. Accessions shall take effect upon deposit of the instruments of accession with the Government of the United States of America by whom they will be notified to all the signatory and acceding States.
Section II.—Coming into Force
ARTICLE 40
1. The present treaty shall be ratified by the Allied and Associated Powers. The treaty shall come into force for those Powers and for Japan upon the deposit of Instruments of Ratification on behalf of any seven of the following States, including the United States of America and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, that is to say: The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the United States of America, China, France, Australia, Burma, Canada, Ceylon, India, Indonesia, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Pakistan, the Republic of the Philippines. The instru- ments of ratification shall be deposited in the shortest time possible with the Government of the United States of America.
2. With respect to each Allied or Associated Power whose instrument of ratification
of deposit 31 thereafter deposited, the treaty shall come to force upon the date
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