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The Far Eastern Commission (FEC) was an Allied commission which supervised the occupation of Japan following its defeat in World War II.[1][2] It succeeded the Far Eastern Advisory Commission (FEAC).
Based in Washington, D.C., it was first agreed on at the Moscow Conference of Foreign Ministers, and made public in communique issued at the end of the conference on December 27, 1945. The nine members that comprised the commission were the United States, United Kingdom, Republic of China, France, the Netherlands, Australia, New Zealand, India and the Philippines. As agreed in the communique, the FEC and the Council were dismantled following the Japanese Peace Treaty of September 8, 1951.
The United States was given the dominant position on the Tokyo-based Allied Council for Japan, a concession the Republic of China was willing to accept due to the underlying influence of the informal 1944 percentages agreement. The Republic of China complied with a Western dominated post-war Japan, alike to the attitude of the United States towards the Soviet dominated spheres of influence in post-war Eastern Europe. [3]
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- ^ Blakeslee, George H. (1951). "The Establishment of the Far Eastern Commission". International Organization. 5 (3): 499–514. doi:10.1017/S002081830003486X. ISSN 1531-5088.
- ^ Interim Meeting of Foreign Ministers, Moscow: Report by Secretary Byrnes on Moscow Meeting Archived 2006-12-30 at the Wayback Machine, December 30, 1945