Treaty of Peace Between Japan and India

The Treaty of Peace Between Japan and India (日本国とインドとの間の平和条約) was a peace treaty signed on 9 June 1952, restoring relations between the two nations.

The British Empire, of which India was a part, had full diplomatic relations with Japan became involved in World War II. After the war Japan was under American occupation and India gained its independence on 15 August 1947. In 1951, the San Francisco Peace Conference was held with Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru refusing to attend the conference,^[1] because he considered the provisions of the San Francisco Treaty to be limiting Japanese sovereignty, as seen to this day with the San Francisco System managed by the United States.^[2]

See also

• Indian independence movement
• Treaty of Peace with Japan
• India–Japan relations
• Japanese–Meitei cultural relations

References

1. Singh, Manmohan (29 April 2005). Dr. Manmohan Singh's banquet speech in honour of Japanese Prime Minister (Speech). New Delhi: Prime Minister's Office. Archived from the original on 12 December 2005. Retrieved 28 March 2014.
2. "Nehru and Non-alignment". P.V. Narasimha Rao. Mainstream Weekly. 2 June 2009. Retrieved 9 November 2009.

External links

• Treaty of Peace Between Japan and India George Washington University
• 日印平和条約（日本国とインドとの間の平和条約） Tokyo University
• Treaty of Peace between the Governments of India and Japan Ministry of External Affairs, India
• Hiroshi Sato, "India-Japan Peace Treaty in Japan's Post-War Asian Diplomacy" Journal of the Japanese Association for South Asian Studies, vol. 17(2005)