No. 724
Editorial Note
On December 24, representatives of Japan and the United States signed at Tokyo an Agreement concerning the Amami Islands. The Agreement was accompanied by an Annex, an Exchange of Notes, an Agreed Official Minute, a Draft of Minutes to be adopted by the Joint Committee under the Administrative Agreement, and a Record of Meeting. For texts of all but the last two mentioned instruments, see 4 UST (pt. 2) 2912.
The Draft of Minutes concerned arrangements made regarding the future presence of United States forces in the Amamis under the Security Treaty and the Administrative Agreement. The Record of a Meeting of December 24, principally concerned the legal status of persons and corporate persons with permanent domiciles in the Amamis, but actual residence in that area of the Ryukyus which was to remain under United States jurisdiction. Both the Draft of Minutes and the Record of Meeting are enclosures to despatch 984 from Tokyo, December 30. (794C.0221/12–3053)
Details of the negotiations, which were conducted at Tokyo, are contained in the telegraphic traffic in file 794C.0221 for November and December 1953.