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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 January 2010
In September 1951, a Peace Treaty between Japan and the Allied Powers that fought against Japan was signed in San Francisco. Article 16 of the Peace Treaty provided for a mandate given to the ICRC to undertake the distribution of funds to those former prisoners of war in Japanese hands who were nationals of the Powers parties to the Treaty, as compensation for the undue hardships those prisoners had suffered during captivity.
page 342 note 1 Hereinafter referred to by its initials, ICRC.
page 350 note 1 U.S.A., Australia, Canada, Ceylon, France, Indonesia, New Zealand, Pakistan, Kingdom of the Netherlands, Republic of the Philippines, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
page 350 note 2 According to article 21 of the treaty, China and Korea were entitled to benefit from the provisions of some articles in the treaty but not those of article 16.