Editing Shigeru Yoshida (section)

===Treaty of San Francisco===
[[File:Yoshida signs San Francisco Peace Treaty.jpg|thumb|Yoshida signs the Treaty of San Francisco]]
In April 1950 Yoshida sent Finance Minister Ikeda, together with Ikeda’s secretary [[Kiichi Miyazawa]] and Yoshida’s confidant [[Jiro Shirasu]], to Washington. On the pretext of an economic mission, Ikeda conveyed the message that the Japanese government would accept a continued U. S. military presence after the occupation in order to ensure Japan’s security and make an early peace treaty possible.{{sfn|Eldridge|Kusunoki|1999|p=97}} President Truman assigned the responsibility of negotiating a peace treaty to [[John Foster Dulles]]. Dulles met with Yoshida in Tokyo for the first time in June 1950, only days before the outbreak of the Korean War. They subsequently met several times to negotiate the treaty.{{sfn|Eldridge|Kusunoki|1999|pp=125-126}}{{sfn|Hosoya|2013|p=210}}

In September 1951, Yoshida signed the [[Treaty of San Francisco]], a peace treaty with the Allies that would serve as a formal peace agreement and bring about the end of the occupation of Japan when the treaty took effect in April 1952. Yoshida also signed the [[Security Treaty between the United States and Japan|Security Treaty]], which inaugurated the post-war military alliance between Japan and the United States. During a stopover in [[Hawaii]] on the way back from San Francisco, he also paid a visit to [[Pearl Harbor]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://apnews.com/5866d71a444a498092e15e69e031eb62/japan-ex-pm-yoshidas-forgotten-pearl-harbor-visit-recounted|title=Japan ex-PM Yoshida's forgotten Pearl Harbor visit recounted|website=[[Associated Press]]|date=26 December 2016}}</ref>