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| 1951, Jan. 29 |
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Prime Minister Yoshida and John Foster Dulles opened talks concerning a peace treaty, as the Liberal Party issued a call for the restoration to Japan of the Soviet-held Kuril Islands and the U.S.-held Ry ky Islands, which included Okinawa. | 1 |
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| March 29 |
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| The U.S. completed the draft of a peace treaty with Japan and communicated it to the 14 cobelligerent powers, including the Soviet Union. | 2 |
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| May 19 |
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| The U.S. officially rejected a Soviet proposal for a Japanese peace treaty to be drawn up by the U.S., Great Britain, the USSR, and Communist China. | 3 |
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| Sept. 4 |
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| The Japanese peace treaty conference opened at San Francisco. Four days later the treaty was approved and signed by delegates from Japan and 48 other powers. Defeated in their efforts at obstruction, the Soviet and other Communist delegates boycotted the final session. The treaty deprived Japan of its overseas possessions but levied no reparations and permitted rearmament. Japan ratified the treaty on Nov. 18. | 4 |
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| Sept. 8 |
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| Japan signed a mutual security pact with the U.S., permitting U.S. troops to remain indefinitely in Japan and to assist UN action in East Asia. The arrangement required Japan not to permit any other nation to impose bases or military authority there without U.S. consent. | 5 |
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