② 前項の目的を達するため、陸海空軍その他の戦力は、これを保持しない。国の交戦権は、これを認めない。[2]
CHAPTER II. RENUNCIATION OF WAR
Article 9. Aspiring sincerely to an international peace based on justice and order, the Japanese people forever renounce war as a sovereign right of the nation and the threat or use of force as means of settling international disputes.
② In order to accomplish the aim of the preceding paragraph, land, sea, and air forces, as well as other war potential, will never be maintained. The right of belligerency of the state will not be recognized.[3]
The High Contracting Parties solemnly declare in the names of their respective peoples that they condemn recourse to war for the solution of international controversies, and renounce it, as an instrument of national policy in their relations with one another.
ARTICLE II
The High Contracting Parties agree that the settlement or solution of all disputes or conflicts of whatever nature or of whatever origin they may be, which may arise among them, shall never be sought except by pacific means.
(7) Until such a new order is established and until there is convincing proof that Japan's war-making power is destroyed, points in Japanese territory to be designated by the Allies shall be occupied to secure the achievement of the basic objectives we are here setting forth.
(9) The Japanese military forces, after being completely disarmed, shall be permitted to return to their homes with the opportunity to lead peaceful and productive lives.
(11) Japan shall be permitted to maintain such industries as will sustain her economy and permit the exaction of just reparations in kind, but not those which would enable her to re-arm for war. To this end, access to, as distinguished from control of, raw materials shall be permitted. Eventual Japanese, participation in world trade relations shall be permitted.— Potsdam Declaration[32]
ポツダム宣言（ポツダムせんげん、英: Potsdam Declaration）は、1945年（昭和20年）7月26日にイギリス、 アメリカ合衆国、中華民国の政府首脳の連名において日本に対して発された全13か条で構成される宣言。正式名称は、日本への降伏要求の最終宣言（にほんへのこうふくようきゅうのさいしゅうせんげん、Proclamation Defining Terms for Japanese Surrender）。宣言を発した各国の名をとって「米英支三国宣言（べいえいしさんごくせんげん）」[1]ともいう[注釈 1]。ソビエト連邦は、後から加わり追認した。そして、日本政府は1945年8月14日にこの宣言を受諾し、9月2日に連合国への降伏文書調印・即時発効に至って第二次世界大戦・太平洋戦争（大東亜戦争）は終結した（日本の降伏）。
