Far Eastern Commission It was agreed at the Moscow Conference of Foreign Ministers , and made public in communique issued at the end of the conference on December 27 , 1945 that the Far Eastern Advisory Commission ( FEAC ) would become the Far Eastern Commission ( FEC ) , it would be based in Washington , and would oversee the Allied Council for Japan . As agreed in the communique the FEC and the Council were dismantled following the Japanese Peace Treaty of September 8 , 1951 . The arrangement of commission overseeing a council was similar to those that the Allies had put in place for overseeing the defeated Axis powers in Europe . It was a mirror image of those Axis countries , like Hungary , which fell to the Soviet Union and were occupied by the Red Army alone , Japan having fallen to the United States and occupied by the U . S . Army , the United States was given the dominant position on the Tokyo based Allied Council for Japan . The change in name of the FEAC to FEC was significant because as the U . S . Secretary of State James F . Byrnes reported after the Conference " " As early as August 9 we invited the Soviet Union , Great Britain , and China to join with us in carrying out the objectives of the Potsdam Declaration and the Terms of Surrender for Japan . The Far Eastern Advisory Commission was established in October , but Great Britain had reservations regarding its advisory character , and the Soviet Union requested a decision regarding control machinery in Tokyo before joining the work of the Commission " " . Background . Following the surrender of the Japanese Empire in August 1945 , the US government began making preparations for the occupation of Japan as set in Potsdam Declaration . Friction evolved between the US government and other Allied governments , which were dissatisfied with US dominant position in Japan . In order to give other Allied governments token representation in the occupation of Japan , the US government on August 21 , 1945 submitted a proposal for the establishing of the " Far Eastern Advisory Commission " to the governments of the Soviet Union , UK and China . The proposal provided for the council to consist of representatives of those countries whose governments join the agreement . According to that proposal , the powers of the commission were to make policy recommendations to the US government in enforcing the provisions of the instrument of surrender . Agreement about the formation of the commission was reached at the London Conference of Foreign Ministers ( September 11 to October 2 , 1945 ) , as US Secretary of State James Byrnes and British Foreign Minister Ernest Bevin agreed to establish the commission along the lines of the US proposal made on August 21 , for the purpose of preparing plans for an Allied Council for Japan . The Far Eastern Commission formulated policies for Japan to fulfil under the terms of surrender it consisted of 13 members , decisions were taken by a majority vote but U . S . , U . K , USSR , and China were able to veto decisions made in the commission . Between 10 July 1947 and 23 December 1948 the FEC made 13 policy decisions which fell into three categories : disarmament ; democratization ; and economic recovery . Disarmament . In order to further remove Japan as a potential future threat to the U . S . the Far Eastern Commission decided that Japan was to be partly de - industrialized . The necessary dismantling of Japanese industry was foreseen to have been achieved when Japanese standards of living had been reduced to those existing in Japan the period 1930 - 1934 . ( see Great Depression )