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With respect to the Treaty of Peace signed this day, the Government of Japan makes the following Declaration:-
1. Except as otherwise provided in the said Treaty of Peace, Japan recognises the full force of all presently effective international instruments to which she was a party on 1st September, 1939, and declares that she will, on the coming into force of the said Treaty, resume all her rights and obligations under those instruments. Where, however, participation in any instrument involves membership in an inter- national organisation of which Japan ceased to be a member on or after 1st Septem- ber, 1939, the provisions of the present paragraph shall be dependent on Japan's readmission to membership in the organisation concerned.
2. It is the intention of the Japanese Government formally to accede to the following international instruments within six months of the coming into force of the Treaty of Peace:-
(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) The International Convention on the Execution of Foreign Arbitral Awards
of 1927;
(6) Convention relating to economic statistics, 1928 and Protocol 1948; (7) Agreement on false indications of origin, 1934;
(8) Convention establishing uniform rules with respect to assistance and salvage
at sea, 1910;
(9) International load line convention, annexes and final act, 1930, as subse-
quently amended;
(10) Each of the four Conventions on conduct in time of war signed at Geneva
on 12th August, 1949.
3. It is equally the intention of the Japanese Government, within six months of the coming into force of the Treaty of Peace, to apply for Japan's admission to participation in the Convention on International Civil Aviation opened for signature at Chicago on 7th December, 1944, and as soon as Japan is herself a party to that Convention, to sign and accept the International Air Services Transit Agreement also opened for signature at Chicago on 7th December, 1944.
(NOTE. The composition of the list in paragraph 2 is subject to further con- sideration. The United Kingdom may raise a point in connection with paragraph 1 on industrial, literary and artistic property.)
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With respect to the Treaty of Peace signed this day, the Government of Japan makes the following Declaration:-
Japan will recognise any Commission, Delegation or other Organisation authorised by any of the Allied and Associated Powers to identify, list, maintain or regulate its war graves, cemeteries and memorials in Japanese territory; will facilitate the work of such Organisation, and will, in respect of the above-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.
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