-President Roosevelt, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and Prime
Minister Churchill, together with their respective military and diplomatic
advisers, have completed a conference in North Africa.
The following
general statement was issued:
"The several military missions have agreed
upon future military operations against Japan. The Three Great Allies expressed
their resolve to bring unrelenting pressure against their brutal enemies by sea,
Iand, and air. This pressure is already rising."
"The Three Great Allies
are fighting this war to restrain and punish the aggression of Japan. They covet
no gain for themselves and have no thought of territorial expansion. It is their
purpose that Japan shall be stripped of all the islands in the Pacific which she
has seized or occupied since the beginning of the first World War in 1914, and
that all the territories Japan has stolen from the Chinese, such as Manchuria,
Formosa, and the Pescadores, shall be restored to the Republic of China. Japan
will also be expelled from all other territories which she has taken by violence
and greed. The aforesaid three great powers, mindful of the enslavement of the
people of Korea, are determined that in due course Korea shall become free and
independent.
"With these objects in view the three Allies, in harmony
with those of the United Nations at war with Japan, will continue to persevere
in the serious and prolonged operations necessary to procure the unconditional
surrender of Japan."-
포츠담선언 원문
“Proclamation Defining Terms For
Japanese Surrender”
(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 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 warmaking 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.
(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 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 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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