SEPT 4, 1951: In San Francisco, the Treaty of Peace with Japan opens as a 4-day conference on behalf of the UN to re-eastablish peaceful formal relations with Japan & the Alled Powers to end the diplomatic legal state of war, military occupation, to redress hostile actions with compensation to former prisoners, and for Japan to accept the tribunal judgments for war crimes. President Harry Truman gave the opening speech which was historic as the first-ever transcontinental TV broadcast that had used AT&T's new longline of microwave technology to transmit a signal to 87 stations in 47 cities, reaching an estimated audience of over 30 million people. Of the 51 participating nations, 48 signed the treaty while China, Russia and Czechoslovakia refused. Of absences, Korea, Italy & Portugal were not invited, while India, Burma & Yugoslavia had been asked but did not attend. Of the disagreements that were argued, were contentious disputes of unresolved issues over Taiwan, and the Kuril, South Sakhalin & Senkaku Islands, all sighting rights for self-determination. On the same day of the treaty being signed on Sept 8, was the signing of the Security Treaty to specifically mark Japan's relationship with the USA in what was named the San Francisco System (the American network of alliances in the Asia-Pacific region). The Treaty of Peace with Japan came into force in Apr 1952 with a ratification in Jul 1956 by the Philippines and a separate bilateral agreement by Indonesia in Jan 1958.
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