The Treaty of Peace Between Japan and India (日本国とインドとの間の平和条約) was a peace treaty signed on June 9, 1952 restoring relations between the two nations. The British Empire, of which India was a part, had full diplomatic relations with Japan became involved in World War II. After the war Japan was under U.S. occupation and India gained its independence on August 15, 1947. In 1951, the San Francisco Peace Conference was held with Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru refusing to attend the conference, because he considered the provisions of the San Francisco Treaty to be limiting Japanese sovereignty, as seen to this day with the San Francisco System managed by the US.