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announcement about implementation of the nine-point economic stabilization
principles. 25 April: Single foreign exchange rate ($1 = 360
yen) implemented. 4 July: General MacArthur announces that Japan is
a bulwark against the advance of communism. 1 October: Mao Zedong
announces the foundation of the People’s Republic of China. 1 November:
State Department announces that the United States is considering
a peace treaty with Japan.
1950 1 January: General MacArthur announces that the Japanese
constitution (Article Nine) does not deny Japan’s right to self-defense.
6 April: President Truman appoints John Foster Dulles as a special foreign
policy adviser to the secretary of state to negotiate a peace treaty
for Japan. 25 April–22 May: Finance Minister Hayato Ikeda visits the
United States. 6 June: General MacArthur directs Prime Minister
Yoshida to purge 24 top officials of the Japanese Communist Party.
21 June–27 June: John Foster Dulles in Japan. 25 June: Korean War
begins. 8 July: GHQ orders the Japanese government to establish the
National Police Reserve. 28 July: Red Purge begins. 10 August: the
National Police Reserve Law is promulgated and becomes effective.
24 November: Memorandum on the Japanese Peace Treaty circulated
by the United States to the Governments Represented on the Far Eastern
Commission and released to the press on this date.
1951 29 January–6 February: Dulles–Yoshida meetings in Tokyo.
16 March: Secretary of State Dean Acheson expresses his wish that the
Soviet Union will join a peace treaty with Japan. 11 April: President
Truman dismisses General MacArthur as SCAP and appoints Matthew
Ridgway as successor. 12 July: John Foster Dulles announces a draft of
the peace treaty with Japan. 8 September: San Francisco Peace Treaty
signed. Japan–U.S. Security Treaty signed on same date.
1952 Fulbright Program begins in Japan. 9 April: Japan–U.S. Fishing
Treaty signed. 28 April: San Francisco Peace Treaty and Japan–U.S.
Security Treaty becomes effective. 28 April: Japan–Taiwan Peace
Treaty signed. 9 May: Ambassador Robert Daniel Murphy, first U.S.
ambassador to Japan in the postwar era, assumes office. 16 June:
Declaration of the Japanese Goverment on its United Nations membership.
10 July: Japan–American Trade Arbitration Agreement signed.
8 September: First Japan–U.S. Economic Cooperation Council held.