No.1
NOTE VERBALE
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs presents its compliments to the Korean Mission in Japan and has the honor to notify the latter as follows:
The Government of Japan withdraws the remarks made by Mr. Kanichiro Kubota, Chief Japanese delegate on October 15, 1953, against which the Korean Delegation protested. Further the Government of Japan hereby withdraws the claim to property in Korea made by the Japanese Delegation at the Korea-Japan Talks on March 6, 1952, on the basis of the "Statement of U.S. Position on Interpretation of Article 4 of the Japanese Peace Treaty with respect to Korean-Japanese Claims Settlemetn" dated December 31, 1957

Tokyo, December 31, 1957