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CHAPTER II
TERRITORIAL CLAUSES
Article 3
The territory of Japan shall comprise the four principal Japanese home islands of Honshu, Kyushu, Shikoku and Hokkaido and all adjacent minor islands, including the islands of the Inland Sea (Seto Naikai); Tsushima, Takeshima (Liancourt Rocks), Oki Retto, Sado, Okujiri, Rebun. Riishiri and all other islands in the Japan Sea (Nippon Kai) within a line connecting the farther shores of Tsushima, Takeshima and Rebun; the Goto archipelago, the Ryukyu Islands north of 29° N. latitude, and all other islands of the East China Sea east of longitude 127° east of Greenwich and north of 29° N. latitude; the Izu Islands southward to and including Sofu Gan (Lot's Wife) and all other islands of the Philippine Sea nearer to the home islands than the islands named; and the southern Kuril Islands (Chishima) northeastward to and including Etorofu and including Shikotan and the Habomai group. Habomai group and Shokotan.
^ All of the islands identified above, with a three-mile belt of territorial waters, shall belong to Japan.
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