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Aso Mining's Indelible Past: Prime Minister Aso Should Seek Reconciliation With Former POWs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

Fujita Yukihisa  and
William Underwood
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The prisoner of war (POW) issue is one of the major pillars of Japan's postwar diplomacy. Japan accepted the Potsdam Declaration, which stipulated in Annex II (b) (10) that “stern justice shall be meted out to all war criminals, including those who have visited cruelties upon our prisoners.” In addition, it was Prime Minister Yoshida Shigeru, the grandfather of Prime Minister Aso Taro, who signed the San Francisco Peace Treaty. Article 16 of the treaty required Japan to join the Geneva Convention that codified the treatment of prisoners of war.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 7 , Issue 16 , April 2009 , e4
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