ABSTRACT
This chapter accounts two themes in the discussion of the San Francisco System. First, many people in Asian Canadian communities had an abiding concern about the peace treaty and post-war arrangements in East Asia. Second, the rise of the post-war San Francisco System was closely linked not only to the geostrategic politics of empire but also to racism. Other issues discussed in relation to San Francisco are immigration and racial equality. John Foster Dulles during his visit to Japan for consulting peace treaty in early 1951, he met with Yoshida Shigeru, Japan's prime minister, at which point they came to a meeting of minds regarding Koreans in Japan. The civil rights movement in the United States and the movement toward multiculturalism in Canada created new space, from which emerged the Asian American movement in the United States and the movement for redress for Japanese Canadians in Canada.
