ABSTRACT
From Yalta Blueprint to San Francisco System: the Cold War and Okinawa/Senkaku . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
Toward “Unresolved Problems”: Disposition of Okinawa/Senkaku in the Peace Treaty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
Early US Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162 T-Documents, CAC-Documents, SWNCC Documents
Early Peace Treaty Drafts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165 March 1947 Draft, August 1947 Draft, November 1947 and January 1948 Drafts
Reopening of Peace Treaty Preparation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168 September 1949 Draft, October and November 1949 Drafts, December 1949 Draft
Dulles and Peace Treaty Drafts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170 August and September 1950 Drafts, Dulles’ Visit to Japan, March 1951 Drafts
British Drafts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172 US-UK Joint Drafts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173 San Francisco Peace Conference and “Residual Sovereignty” Statement by Dulles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
After San Francisco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177 Dulles’Warning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177 Okinawa’s Reversion and the Base Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178 Japan-China Territorial Dispute: from Okinawa/Liuchiu to Senkaku/Diaoyu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178 US Involvement in the Okinawa and Senkaku Problems in the 1970s . . . 179 Okinawa and Senkaku/Diaoyu in the 1980s and 1990s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182
Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
Together with the other Japanese islands in the Pacific, the islands of Ryukyu (Okinawa) were disposed in Article 3 of the San Francisco Peace Treaty. Territorial disposition in this Article 3 has important implications for contemporary regional international relations in terms of the following two problems: (1) the status of Okinawa; and (2) the territorial dispute between Japan and China(s), called “Senkaku” in Japanese and “Diaoyu” in Chinese.
