Office of the Historian

United States Relations with and Policies Toward Japan

Conclusion (and later partial revision) of an Administrative Agreement between the United States and Japan; interest of the United States in the Japan-Republic of China peace treaty; entry into force of the Peace and Security Treaties with Japan; the NSC 125 series; interest of the United States in Japanese rearmament and in retention of the Bonin and Ryukyu Islands; conclusion of a Mutual Defense Assistance Agreement with Japan; the question of economic and military assistance to Japan; position of the United States regarding its trade with and investment in Japan; position of the United States with regard to Japan’s relations with the Republic of Korea; the Fukuryu Maru incident1

[525] No. 525
The Secretary of State to the United States Political Adviser to SCAP (Sebald)

Washington, February 20, 1952—7:42 p.m.

611.94/2–2052: Telegram

[527] No. 527
The Assistant Chief of Army Staff for Operations (Jenkins) to the General Headquarters, Far East Command, in Japan

Washington, 22 February, 1952.

Tokyo Post files, 320.1 Bilateral Security Treaty: Telegram

[531] No. 531
The United States Political Adviser to SCAP (Sebald) to the Department of State

Tokyo, February 27, 1952—5 p.m.

611.94/2–2752: Telegram

[533] No. 533
Memorandum Prepared in the Department of State

[Washington?, undated.]

611.94/2–2752

[534] No. 534
The Secretary of State to the Office of the United States Political Adviser to SCAP (Sebald)

Washington, February 28, 1952—5:21 p.m.

693.941/2–2852: Telegram

[539] No. 539
The Chargé in the Republic of China (Rankin) to the Department of State

Taipei, March 5, 1952—9 p.m.

693.941/3–552: Telegram

[543] No. 543
Memorandum of Conversation, by the Commander in Chief, Far East (Ridgway)

[Tokyo,] March 26, 1952—4:30–5:20 p.m.

794.00/5–2652

[548] No. 548
Memorandum by the Secretary of State to the President

[Washington,] April 14, 1952.

694.001/4–152

[551] No. 551
The Commander in Chief, Far East (Ridgway) to the Department of the Army

Tokyo, April 9, 1952—3:37 p.m.

795.00/4–2952: Telegram

  1. Continued from Foreign Relations, 1951, vol. vi, Part 1, pp. 777 ff. For documentation on U.S. interest in the admission of Japan to the United Nations, see vol. iii, pp. 802 ff. For documentation on U.S. interest in the admission of Japan to GATT, see vol. i, Part 1, pp. 114 ff.↩