....We hereby undertake for the Emperor, the Japanese Government, and their successors to carry out the provisions of the Potsdam Declaration in good faith, and to issue whatever orders and take whatever actions may be required by the Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers or by any other designated representative of the Allied Powers for the purpose of giving effect to that Declaration.
Signed at TOKYO BAY, JAPAN at 0904 I on the SECOND day of SEPTEMBER, 1945
MAMORU SHIGMITSU
By Command and in behalf of the Emperor
of Japan and the Japanese Government
YOSHIJIRO UMEZU
By Command and in behalf of the Japanese
Imperial General Headquarters
Accepted at TOKYO BAY, JAPAN at 0903 I on the SECOND day of SEPTEMBER, 1945, for the United States, Republic of China, United Kingdom, and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and in the interests of the other United Nations at war with Japan.
DOUGLAS MAC ARTHUR
Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers
The above is the last few paragraphs of the Surrender document of Japan taken from Wikipedia.
What is in the Potsdam Declaration?
That "The terms of the Cairo Declaration shall be carried out and Japanese sovereignty shall be limited to the islands of Honshu, Hokkaido, Kyushu, Shikoku and such minor islands as we determine."
Cairo Declaration
It is their purpose that Japan shall be stripped of all the islands in the Pacific which she has seized or occupied since the beginning of the first World War in 1914, and that all the territories Japan has stolen from the Chinese, such as Manchuria, Formosa, and The Pescadores, shall be restored to the Republic of China. Japan will also be expelled from all other territories which she has taken by violence and greed. The aforesaid three great powers, mindful of the enslavement of the people of Korea, are determined that in due course Korea shall become free and independent.
The above selected quotes are from Wikipedia that specified what is left of Japan after their unconditional surrender to the Allied Forces. The three documents, the Surrender Document, Potsdam Declaration and the Cairo Declaration were parts of the whole document that specifically limited Japan's post war national territory.
The gist, Japan's territory is confined to the 4 main islands of Honshu, Hokkaido, Kyushu and Shikoku. All the islands south of the 4 main islands no longer belong to Japan, to be returned to their original owners. The Surrender Documents stripped Japan of all islands south of the 4 main islands.
Why is Japan now in control of all the islands south of the 4 main islands, from the Ryukyu Islands to islands near to Taiwan and even claiming Diaoyu islands as part of Japan? Who gave these islands back to Japan and under what authority? Who should be the right authority to decide otherwise, against the Surrender Documents? The Surrender Documents are still in force.
Japan, the loser in the war, had taken back all the islands that they seized from other owners through use of force, and the rightful owners of these islands are deprived from their rights to these islands, in violation of the Surrender Documents. The UN or the ICJ must intervene into the legality of Japanese ownership and administrative power over these islands. The decision must be made at the UN and the islands must be returned to their rightful owners as sanctioned by the Surrender Documents.
Japan and America's occupation and control of these islands are illegal. The UN and ICJ must the arbiters to enforce the legal issues over ownership of these islands.The treacherous Americans have violated the provisions of the Surrender Documents.
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