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Potsdam Declaration

1945

Exported from Wikisource on August 2, 2024

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(1) We, the President of the United States, the President of
the National Government of the Republic of China and the
Prime Minister of Great Britain, representing the hundreds
of millions of our countrymen, have conferred and agree
that Japan shall be given an opportunity to end this war.

(2) The prodigious land, sea and air forces of the United
States, the British Empire and of China, many times
reinforced by their armies and air fleets from the west are
poised to strike the final blows upon Japan. This military
power is sustained and inspired by the determination of all
the Allied nations to prosecute the war against Japan until
she ceases to resist.

(3) The result of the futile and senseless German resistance


to the might of the aroused free peoples of the world stands
forth in awful clarity as an example to the people of Japan.
The might that now converges on Japan is immeasurably
greater than that which, when applied to the resisting Nazis,
necessarily laid waste to the lands, the industry and the
method of life of the whole German people. The full
application of our military power, backed by our resolve,
will mean the inevitable and complete destruction of the
Japanese armed forces and just as inevitably the utter
devastation of the Japanese homeland.

(4) The time has come for Japan to decide whether she will
continue to be controlled by those self-willed militaristic

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advisers whose unintelligent calculations have brought the
Empire of Japan to the threshold of annihilation, or whether
she will follow the path of reason.

(5) Following are our terms. We will not deviate from them.
There are no alternatives. We shall brook no delay.

(6) There must be eliminated for all time the authority and
influence of those who have deceived and misled the people
of Japan into embarking on world conquest, for we insist
that a new order of peace, security and justice will be
impossible until irresponsible militarism is driven from the
world.

(7) Until such a new order is established and until there is


convincing proof that Japan’s war-making power is
destroyed, points in Japanese territory to be designated by
the Allies shall be occupied to secure the achievement of
the basic objectives we are here setting forth.

(8) The terms of the Cairo Declaration shall be carried out


and Japanese sovereignty shall be limited to the islands of
Honshu, Hokkaido, Kyushu, Shikoku and such minor
islands as we determine.

(9) The Japanese military forces, after being completely


disarmed, shall be permitted to return to their homes with
the opportunity to lead peaceful and productive lives.

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(10) We do not intend that the Japanese shall be enslaved as
a race or destroyed as a nation, but stern justice shall be
meted out to all war criminals, including those who have
visited cruelties upon our prisoners. The Japanese
government shall remove all obstacles to the revival and
strengthening of democratic tendencies among the Japanese
people. Freedom of speech, of religion, and of thought, as
well as respect for the fundamental human rights shall be
established.

(11) Japan shall be permitted to maintain such industries as


will sustain her economy and permit the exaction of just
reparations in kind, but not those industries which would
enable her to re-arm for war. To this end, access to, as
distinguished from control of raw materials shall be
permitted. Eventual Japanese participation in world trade
relations shall be permitted.

(12) The occupying forces of the Allies shall be withdrawn


from Japan as soon as these objectives have been
accomplished and there has been established in accordance
with the freely expressed will of the Japanese people a
peacefully inclined and responsible government.

(13) We call upon the Government of Japan to proclaim


now the unconditional surrender of all the Japanese armed
forces, and to provide proper and adequate assurances of
their good faith in such action. The alternative for Japan is
prompt and utter destruction.

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