Japanese Peace Treaty Negotiations with the Soviet Union and China,January to April,1975

For the full English text, see Japan Times, Junuary 19, 1975.

Japan Times, January 22, 1975.

Le Monde, February 19, 1975.

Mainichi Daily News, April 16, 1975.

The Japanese names for these islands are Kunashiri and Etorofu.

Japan Times, January 31, 1975.

J.J. Stephan , The Kuril Islands (Oxford, 1974), p. 55.

G.A. Lensen , The Russian Push toward Japan (Princeton, 1959).

See, e.g., the United States Military Intelligence Division report of August 1933, quoted in G.A. Lensen , The Damned Inheritance ( Tallahassee, 1974), p. 390.

For evidence that the United States leadership erroneously believed that the Kurils had been " torn from Russia by Japan," see a work by the former American Under-Secretary of State, Sumner Welles: Seven Major Decisions (London, 1951), p. 160.

Stephan, op. cit. p. 222.

Quoted in Welles, op. cit. p. 160.

J. Gittings , The World and China, 1922-1972 (London, 1974), p. 150.

Quoted in, R.H. Donaldson , Soviet Policy toward India (Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1974), p. 219.

L. Jerold Adams, Theory, Law and Policy of Contemporary Japanese Treaties ( New York, 1974), p. 78.

V. Zorza , " Quarrel islands," The Guardian, March 24, 1975.

D.C. Hellmann , "The Confrontation with Realpolitik," in J. W. Morley (ed.). Forecast for Japan (Princeton, 1972).