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This Ugly yet Beautiful World

This Ugly yet Beautiful World (この醜くも美しい世界) is a Japanese anime television series created by Shouji Saeki and Hiroyuki Yamaga. It was animated by Gainax and Shaft.

The series aired on BS-i from April 2, 2004 to June 18, 2004, totaling 12 episodes. A manga adaptation, illustrated by Ashita Morimi, was serialized in Hakusensha's Young Animal.

Plot
Takeru and Ryou are high school students who work doing deliveries for the former's uncle. One night, the two go to investigate a mysterious light in the woods only to find a young girl emerging from the light. Takeru and Ryou are attacked by an alien, which is defeated when Takeru transforms into a powerful and strange-looking beast himself. The girl, whom the boys name "Hikari" (light), is taken in by Takeru when she confesses to having no memory of who she is.

They are later joined by Jennifer Portman, an American scientist with an interest in the boys and Hikari; Ioneos, a shape-shifting robot loyal to Hikari; Kuon, a little floating alien; and Akari, Hikari's "sister", who also appeared just as Hikari did. The series follows the daily lives of its characters as they learn about the human condition, Hikari and Akari's alien origins, and face the incoming monsters and catastrophes.

Main characters

 * Takeru Takemoto (竹本タケル)
 * Takeru Takemoto is the series' main character. He comes off as a lazy and unmotivated teenager, but is really just unsure of his place in the world. He found and named Hikari in the woods in the first episode. After finding Hikari, Takeru gains inexplicable new powers which allow him to transform into a powerful, yet primal being with incredible lethality, but has also been shown to be able to transform into something between his human and monster forms. This power is later explained to be a result of Extended Definition. Takeru eventually develops a love interest in Hikari, ultimately convincing Hikari to spare the world for their love. It is shown that he has some feelings for Mari, but only as a relative. He is obsessed with motorcycles and wanted to take Hikari on a journey throughout the country on one.
 * Takeru Takemoto is the series' main character. He comes off as a lazy and unmotivated teenager, but is really just unsure of his place in the world. He found and named Hikari in the woods in the first episode. After finding Hikari, Takeru gains inexplicable new powers which allow him to transform into a powerful, yet primal being with incredible lethality, but has also been shown to be able to transform into something between his human and monster forms. This power is later explained to be a result of Extended Definition. Takeru eventually develops a love interest in Hikari, ultimately convincing Hikari to spare the world for their love. It is shown that he has some feelings for Mari, but only as a relative. He is obsessed with motorcycles and wanted to take Hikari on a journey throughout the country on one.

 * Hikari (ヒカリ)
 * A mysterious girl who 'fell from the sky', Hikari fell in love with Takeru at first sight after being found in the first episode. She is very cheerful and thinks that almost everything is beautiful. While she can not remember anything before the day Takeru found her, it is later discovered her purpose is to destroy Earth. She is the goddess of darkness, death, and destruction. Hikari has split personalities, and her appearance changes depending on which one is dominant; her "good" personality is characterized by orange hair and green eyes, and her "evil" personality is characterized by pink hair and red eyes. By the series' end, she decides to destroy the earth, but Takeru stops her with his love for her. In the end of the anime, Hikari lives with Akari in the stars, though promises to return. Her name means "Light."
 * A mysterious girl who 'fell from the sky', Hikari fell in love with Takeru at first sight after being found in the first episode. She is very cheerful and thinks that almost everything is beautiful. While she can not remember anything before the day Takeru found her, it is later discovered her purpose is to destroy Earth. She is the goddess of darkness, death, and destruction. Hikari has split personalities, and her appearance changes depending on which one is dominant; her "good" personality is characterized by orange hair and green eyes, and her "evil" personality is characterized by pink hair and red eyes. By the series' end, she decides to destroy the earth, but Takeru stops her with his love for her. In the end of the anime, Hikari lives with Akari in the stars, though promises to return. Her name means "Light."

 * Ryou Ninomiya (二ノ宮リョウ)
 * Ryou Ninomiya is Takeru's best friend and is favored by many of the girls at school because of his gentle nature. He is consistently called "Ryou-sama" by Sakurako and Amika. He is the one who found Akari and throughout the series develops feelings for her. He too develops special powers, his being the ability to grant his wishes, shown by blue spirals on his hands.
 * Ryou Ninomiya is Takeru's best friend and is favored by many of the girls at school because of his gentle nature. He is consistently called "Ryou-sama" by Sakurako and Amika. He is the one who found Akari and throughout the series develops feelings for her. He too develops special powers, his being the ability to grant his wishes, shown by blue spirals on his hands.

 * Akari (アカリ)
 * Akari is a girl that appears just as mysteriously as Hikari. Ryou finds her in the forest and makes her part of his family. She considers Hikari her older sister, and she grows very attached to Ryou and Kimi. Akari later reveals that she and Hikari are actually one being and that they were split into two during their landing. The part of Hikari's personality that does not want the earth destroyed is manifested in Akari. In the end of the anime, she and Hikari wander the stars with only each other. Her name means "Bright."
 * Akari is a girl that appears just as mysteriously as Hikari. Ryou finds her in the forest and makes her part of his family. She considers Hikari her older sister, and she grows very attached to Ryou and Kimi. Akari later reveals that she and Hikari are actually one being and that they were split into two during their landing. The part of Hikari's personality that does not want the earth destroyed is manifested in Akari. In the end of the anime, she and Hikari wander the stars with only each other. Her name means "Bright."

Supporting characters

 * Mari Nishino (西野マリ)
 * Mari Nishino is Takeru's cousin, While she nags Takeru for various reasons, Mari harbors jealousy of Takeru and Hikari's relationship. Although she denies her feelings for him early in the series, Mari falls in love with Takeru. Throughout the series she is aggravated by the closeness of Hikari and Takeru, and distrusts Hikari, although is kind to her through the beginning of the series. Her jealousy of their relationship grows as her love for Takeru grows largely unrequited. Near the climax of the series, Mari admits her love to Takeru, attempting to make him not follow Hikari, but Takeru only smiles, thanks her, and goes to persuade Hikari to spare the world.
 * Mari Nishino is Takeru's cousin, While she nags Takeru for various reasons, Mari harbors jealousy of Takeru and Hikari's relationship. Although she denies her feelings for him early in the series, Mari falls in love with Takeru. Throughout the series she is aggravated by the closeness of Hikari and Takeru, and distrusts Hikari, although is kind to her through the beginning of the series. Her jealousy of their relationship grows as her love for Takeru grows largely unrequited. Near the climax of the series, Mari admits her love to Takeru, attempting to make him not follow Hikari, but Takeru only smiles, thanks her, and goes to persuade Hikari to spare the world.

 * Jennifer Portman (ジェニファー・ポートマン)
 * Jennifer Portman is an American super-scientist who came to Japan to study the "Extended Definition", a species' ability to prevent its own extinction, which usually manifests itself in said species transforming into a monstrous form that maximizes its combat potential, and gives it the instinct to attack or kill Hikari. She moves in with Takeru, Hikari, and Mari. She's rarely to be seen without some kind of alcohol and is somewhat of an exhibitionist. Although out of work she appears ditzy and idiotic, she is extremely intelligent at her work. Her personality is seen as a blend between that of Misato Katsuragi and Ritsuko Akagi from Neon Genesis Evangelion (another Gainax series).
 * Jennifer Portman is an American super-scientist who came to Japan to study the "Extended Definition", a species' ability to prevent its own extinction, which usually manifests itself in said species transforming into a monstrous form that maximizes its combat potential, and gives it the instinct to attack or kill Hikari. She moves in with Takeru, Hikari, and Mari. She's rarely to be seen without some kind of alcohol and is somewhat of an exhibitionist. Although out of work she appears ditzy and idiotic, she is extremely intelligent at her work. Her personality is seen as a blend between that of Misato Katsuragi and Ritsuko Akagi from Neon Genesis Evangelion (another Gainax series).

 * Shinichi Asakura (浅倉晋一) and Daijirou Matsumura (松村大治郎)
 * Shinichi
 * Daijiro
 * Shinichi Asakura and Daijirou Matsumura are schoolmates of Takeru who seem to always be dreaming up some kind of perverted fantasy, especially once they met Hikari.

 * Sakurako Urushima (漆島桜子) and Amika Kurebayashi (紅林浴香)
 * Sakurako
 * Amika
 * Sakurako and Amika enjoy egging on the love triangle between Takeru, Mari and Hikari.

 * Itcho (西野一丁) and Sumie Nishino (西野澄江)
 * Itcho
 * Sumie
 * Itchō and Sumie Nishino are Mari's parents. They took in Takeru when his mother abandoned him at a young age. Currently, they run two business ventures: a delivery business and a boarding service.

 * Kimi Ninomiya (二ノ宮紀美)
 * Kimi is Ryou's loud-mouthed younger sister who takes care of the housework when her brother is out. She was the only person living with Ryou until Akari came. She seems to be very protective of Ryou and, while she allowed Akari into their home, attempted to put a barrier between them and frequently got mad whenever they came into close contact.
 * Kimi is Ryou's loud-mouthed younger sister who takes care of the housework when her brother is out. She was the only person living with Ryou until Akari came. She seems to be very protective of Ryou and, while she allowed Akari into their home, attempted to put a barrier between them and frequently got mad whenever they came into close contact.

 * Kuon (クオン)
 * Kuon is the little creature that takes care of Akari. He looks like a specter with two luminous eyes but no defined body shape, except by his clothing. He is capable of levitation and apparently has some sharp tentacles, as he is seen carrying a watermelon with them which he later uses to remove the rind from the watermelon. Towards the end of the series, Kuon and Ioneos enter hibernation mode and become a crystal. Kuon becomes a chip of the crystal which is probably why Kuon was small and Ioneos was big.
 * Kuon is the little creature that takes care of Akari. He looks like a specter with two luminous eyes but no defined body shape, except by his clothing. He is capable of levitation and apparently has some sharp tentacles, as he is seen carrying a watermelon with them which he later uses to remove the rind from the watermelon. Towards the end of the series, Kuon and Ioneos enter hibernation mode and become a crystal. Kuon becomes a chip of the crystal which is probably why Kuon was small and Ioneos was big.

 * Ioneos (アイオニオス)
 * Ioneos is like Kuon's "older brother," as he and Kuon are created from the same type of magical crystal. However, Ioneos's appearance and size are much larger and sleeker than Kuon's because he is an entire crystal, save a small chipped fragment which Kuon is made from. He was sealed inside of one of the school's stone pillars until Hikari accidentally released him during a routine fire drill. The entire school was subsequently demolished after the blast following Ioneos's release. Jennifer nicknamed him "Oniita," (or "Neo" in the English dub) saying that his original name was too long. In the end, Ioneos enters hibernation mode along with Kuon and become crystals, Kuon being the little chip and Ioneos being the big crystal. Jennifer puts them on a necklace and wears the crystals.
 * Ioneos is like Kuon's "older brother," as he and Kuon are created from the same type of magical crystal. However, Ioneos's appearance and size are much larger and sleeker than Kuon's because he is an entire crystal, save a small chipped fragment which Kuon is made from. He was sealed inside of one of the school's stone pillars until Hikari accidentally released him during a routine fire drill. The entire school was subsequently demolished after the blast following Ioneos's release. Jennifer nicknamed him "Oniita," (or "Neo" in the English dub) saying that his original name was too long. In the end, Ioneos enters hibernation mode along with Kuon and become crystals, Kuon being the little chip and Ioneos being the big crystal. Jennifer puts them on a necklace and wears the crystals.

 * Mayu Yoshida (吉田真由)
 * Mayu is the class representative. She is short and full of self-doubt. In one episode, Mayu admits to Hikari that she sometimes hates school because everyone teases her, which makes Hikari turn into her "evil" self and destroy the school (brought on by Mayu's hate for school) although Mayu does not seem to remember it.
 * Mayu is the class representative. She is short and full of self-doubt. In one episode, Mayu admits to Hikari that she sometimes hates school because everyone teases her, which makes Hikari turn into her "evil" self and destroy the school (brought on by Mayu's hate for school) although Mayu does not seem to remember it.

Anime
The anime was directed by Shouji Saeki at studios Gainax and Shaft. Saeki and Hiroyuki Yamaga served as the series composition writers, Takeshi Watanabe composed the music, and Kazuhiro Takamura (from Gainax) designed the characters and served as chief animation director. Two episodes were outsourced outside of Gainax and Shaft: episodes 5 and 10, which were produced at studio Nomad.

Music
Soundtrack composer: Tsuyoshi Watanabe

 * Opening song:
 * "Metamorphose" by Yoko Takahashi

 * Ending song:
 * "Natsuiro no Kakera" by Yoko Ishida (Episodes 1-11)
 * "Kimi ni Aete" by Ayako Kawasumi & Ai Shimizu (Episode 12)

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New Zealand Conservative Party

The New Zealand Conservative Party (originally known as Right of Centre) was a short-lived political party in New Zealand. It was founded by a dissident National Party MP, Ross Meurant.

Foundation
Meurant had led the New Zealand Police's high-profile "Red Squad" during the controversial 1981 Springbok Tour. He became a National Party MP in 1987 and won re-election as such in 1990 and in 1993. Meurant often clashed with the leadership of the National Party over Māori policy, and was regarded as one of the leading dissidents within the National caucus at the time. Eventually, in September 1994, Meurant decided to break away from National and to establish his own party, adopting the name "Right of Centre" (or "ROC"). The acronym represented Meurant's right-wing economic philosophy of privatisation of government assets.

The new party was originally conceived by former National MPs Rob Munro (formerly a lieutenant-colonel in the New Zealand Army), lawyer Graham Reeves, and Meurant. Munro and Reeves had lost their National seats in 1993. Meurant remained in Parliament but was an implacable critic of Prime Minister Jim Bolger. To some extent the new party represented an opportunity for the former MPs to re-enter parliament. However, as the 1996 general election loomed, Munro retreated to obscurity and Reeves returned to the National Party fold to contest the unwinnable Tukituki electorate seat for National.

Relationship with National Party
Meurant held the view that the new MMP formula for delivering parliamentary seats precluded any single party from achieving an outright majority (except in the most exceptional circumstances). Misguidedly, he anticipated that Prime Minister Bolger and his trusted aide, Finance Minister Bill Birch, would recognise the mathematical inevitability of the MMP formula and embrace Meurant and the former National party conspirators, in a post-election coalition.

But Meurant had mis-read the animosity Bolger had for him that, in the final analysis, condemned Meurant's party to oblivion. Though history did vindicate Meurant's belief that the MMP formula would not deliver an outright winning party at the polls. In fact, in 1996, the Bolger government finally accepted the inevitability of Meurant's claim and reached a pact with ACT, the second political party to be formed under MMP. ACT had been formed by former Labour Finance Minister Roger Douglas (now Sir Roger Douglas). National withdrew its candidate from the Wellington Central electorate to ensure ACT's candidate, Richard Prebble, would succeed in the election. This provided ACT with an electorate MP to offset its failure (as happened with all minor parties in the first general election under MMP (including the Christian Coalition) to reach the 5% threshold of votes to qualify as a political party with "List MPs" in parliament. This manoeuvre enabled Bolger to cobble together a coalition with ACT personalities whom he preferred to Meurant.

Prior to the 1996 general election, however, and prior to Meurant resigning from National, Meurant came to an arrangement with Bolger whereby Right-of-Centre would not oppose the National Party government in votes of confidence and supply; in exchange, Meurant would keep his governmental post as Parliamentary Undersecretary for Agriculture.

Until the emergence of other dissident National and Labour MPs (who formed the political party United with a base of seven MPs), Meurant actually held the balance of power and this allowed the National government to maintain its majority in the House.

Meurant built a political party largely on the provincial farming network of Federated Farmers (former president Lumsden was a candidate) and Meat Board representatives (Tim Britton and John McCarthy were both candidates).

On 8 June 1995, Meurant was joined by Trevor Rogers, another dissident National MP. Rogers was well known for his campaigns against pornography. He was a particular opponent of the internet, which he saw as facilitating the distribution of pornography and, in 1994, he had proposed a bill to completely outlaw the viewing of pornography on the internet. After a long period of argument with his fellow National MPs, Rogers decided that his future did not lie with the National Party and he transferred his allegiance to Right of Centre. This gave the party two MPs.

In September 1995, Right of Centre clashed with the National Party when Ross Meurant was sacked as Parliamentary Undersecretary for Agriculture. This came as a result of Meurant's accepting a directorship of Prok Bank, a Russian-owned bank registered in Vanuatu. Prime Minister Bolger believed that this directorship was inappropriate for someone holding an executive post in government, and requested that Meurant resign the directorship. Meurant refused, and was sacked as Parliamentary Undersecretary. Despite the tension this generated, Right of Centre continued to support the National government.

General Election, 1996
Meanwhile, Right of Centre was not achieving the success in the polls that Meurant and Rogers had hoped. Meurant had strategised his party to capture a portion of the provincial conservative vote in New Zealand, but after more than a year, the party was still barely registering. It was decided in October 1995 to rebrand the party as the New Zealand Conservative Party. The group retained its socially conservative policies but also attempted to win support from the rural sector. This new campaign was based on the claim that National, once strongly associated with the agricultural sector, had abandoned farmers for "big business" and the cities. This new attempt to build a voter base did not meet with any noticeable success.

As the election loomed, internal disputes in Right of Centre occurred. In February 1996, Meurant rejected pressure from the executive of the party to abandon right-wing economic policies in favour of the more traditional and socialist provincial New Zealand policies. Meurant refused, claiming he alone had garnered substantial monetary donations from wealthy individuals, and on the promise of right wing economic policy forming the basis of the new party.

When the executive of the Party overruled Meurant and refused to return political donations garnered by Meurant on the promise of right wing economic policies, Meurant left the party and became an independent, following the path of most former independent MPs: to political oblivion. During the election campaign, despite having an incumbent MP in Rogers, the party was left out of the television debates and as a result got little daily newspaper coverage which contributed to their poor polling result.

After the general election of 1996, the party had an even lower profile before the remnants of the party amalgamated with the United Party in April 1998.

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Old talk
USA illegaly deounced the Jalta treaty of 1945 clauses which dealed with the Kuril islands that was why USSR refused to sigh the San-Francisco treaty
 * Oh really? How about making Japan the worlds largest US military base on the backsteps of the USSR?

-G

Notes on Monetary Standards
I believe that it should be noted somewhere that all the money listed in this article is in gold-backed dollars and gold-backed yen. It would also be helpful if there were some comparison of this to current dollars. 219.163.12.72 10:41, 20 December 2006 (UTC)Oscar_the_Grouch

Parties of SFPT
"Thereby, China, not being a party on the treaty, was legally prohibited to be benefited from the sovereignty of Taiwan according to Article 25 in the treaty."

The Treaty of Taipei repeated the terms of the Treaty of San Francisco. I don't see how this statement holds. --Jiang 05:59, 14 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for your comment.

First of all, there is a clear definition of the parties of SFPT.

SFPT Article 23 (a)The present Treaty shall be ratified by the States which sign it, including Japan, and will come into force for all the States which have then ratified it, when instruments of ratification have been deposited by Japan and by a majority, including the United States of America as the principal occupying Power, of the following States, namely Australia, Canada, Ceylon, France, Indonesia, the Kingdom of the Netherlands, New Zealand, Pakistan, the Republic of the Philippines, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and the United States of America. The present Treaty shall come into force of each State which subsequently ratifies it, on the date of the deposit of its instrument of ratification.

SFPT Article 25 For the purposes of the present Treaty the Allied Powers shall be the States at war with Japan, or any State which previously formed a part of the territory of a State named in Article 23, provided that in each case the State concerned has signed and ratified the Treaty. Subject to the provisions of Article 21, the present Treaty shall not confer any rights, titles or benefits on any State which is not an Allied Power as herein defined; nor shall any right, title or interest of Japan be deemed to be diminished or prejudiced by any provision of the Treaty in favour of a State which is not an Allied Power as so defined.

Neither China was not part of it.

Secondly, Treaty of Taipei repeated the conditions of the Treaty of San Francisco with a reason.

SFPT Article 26 Japan will be prepared to conclude with any State which signed or adhered to the United Nations Declaration of 1 January 1942, ........... '''Should Japan make a peace settlement or war claims settlement with any State granting that State greater advantages than those provided by the present Treaty, those same advantages shall be extended to the parties to the present Treaty. '''

Thirdly, when I sign a contract with AT&T, it does not mean I am part of other contracts between AT&T and the rest of the world, even though the terms on the contracts look identical.

Lastly, I put this segment on in order to neutralize the POV about the "Instrument of Surrender of Japan" in the article. No matter whether it holds or not(apparently you would argue it does not), if one side's view is presented to the public, it requires the opposit side to be revealed to make the views neutral. As you mentioned to me last time: Let the readers be the judge. :) Mababa 01:35, 15 Oct 2004 (UTC)

I still don't see your point. Japan did not hand the sovereignty of Taiwan to any foreign power in the San Francisco Treaty. It only renounced its own rights. --Jiang 06:31, 7 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Sure, I do see what you see. I guess I did not address your question. So may I ask what is your question again?Mababa 06:35, 7 Nov 2004 (UTC)

 * You say article 25 prevented China from receiving the benefits conferred to the allies by this treaty. I say that this treaty did not confer any benefits in regards to Taiwan. Japan just renounced sovereignty. The benefit (handing sovereignty over to another power) was never given. --Jiang 06:40, 7 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Hey, I just saw that you removed a huge section from the article. Would you mind spell out your reason and had a discussion before you do that? Otherwise people would just reverting each other.Mababa 06:38, 7 Nov 2004 (UTC)

 * The Instrument of Surrender is not really relevant. Can you provide examples of where it is being used as an argument over the San Francisco Peace Treaty? Who is saying an armistice takes precedence over a treaty? We can also argue that the Taipei Treaty voided previous agreements with Japan so in that way sovereignty was reverted. --Jiang 06:40, 7 Nov 2004 (UTC)

 * Apparently there is misunderstanding. I was NOT the person who initially put the Instrument of Surrender sentence into the article. I just noticed the original sentence on the instrument of surrender was a POV and tried to balance by puting a reverse argument. If you want to remove everything about Instrument of Surrender, I have no opinion. Let's do it. Oh, I just saw you reverted again.Mababa 06:47, 7 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Unfortunately, your argument about reverting Taiwan sovereignty in Treaty of Taipei is null since that treaty has been revoked after normalization between Japan and PRC. Therefore, the whatever in Treaty of Taipei voiding previous agreement is voided. Everything stood previously stands.Mababa 21:37, 8 Nov 2004 (UTC)

 * The treaty was never revoked by another one. Both the US and Japan only "acknowledge" (as opposed to "recognize") the PRC claim over Taiwan. This aside, Japan can be said to have recognized the PRC as the ROC successor state, allowing the treaty to hold. --Jiang 00:24, 9 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Please refer to the talk page in Treaty of Taipei. I have offered the evidence that it was PRC asked Japan to revoke Treaty of Taipei. Japan delightfully abrogated it in 1972 right after normalization with PRC. There is no doubt in the history that Treaty of Taipei is gone forever. It does not hold.Mababa 07:07, 9 Nov 2004 (UTC)

I still don't see your point. Japan did not hand the sovereignty of Taiwan to any foreign power in the San Francisco Treaty. It only renounced its own rights. --Jiang 06:31, 7 Nov 2004 (UTC)

I apologize that I did not see this previously. This is a big mistery. Where did Taiwan sovereignty go? Yes, the treaty was silent on Taiwan sovereignty, i.e. whoever occupying there gets to continuing their occupation but not officially gets the sovereignty. That's why people invoked the Laws of war and developed the Taiwan cession model to tackle the big mistery in the international laws.Mababa 02:30, 10 Nov 2004 (UTC)

I believe that it is said that soveriegnty was deliberately vague because the US had the 7th fleet in the Straits then. If it wa explicitly announced that Taiwan was China's they'd be admitting that they were interfering in another country's internal affairs.

Removed complicated text
I see no extra value of using quotes instead of simplifying text in a couple of sentences. (my edit). An encyclopedia is designed to be short and to the point. the quotations, especially the first one, was just plain confusing--Jiang 05:57, 29 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Agreed. Thanks for comment. Since it makes people wonder why China were not invited to the conference, I just thought that we might be able to explain a little bit. Not really necessary for the article, though. Thanks.Mababa 06:11, 29 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Name of article
THe name of the article is confusing- what's wrong with naming it the Treaty of San Francisco? There are TWO treaties of peace with Japan- which makes this article extremely ambigous. This article even has a link to the Treaty of Taipei but named "The Treaty of Peace with Japan! I say we change the name of this article to the Treaty of San Franciso, point "The treaty of Peace with Japan to a disambiguation page (with links to both the Taipei and San Fran treaties) What do the rest of you folk think? On the meantime, I'm changing the name of the link to the "Treaty of Taipei" and just putting in treaty -User:Borisblue

Note on Senkaku and Taiwan disputes
Since I'm a partisan on this dispute, people need to watch my edits, but having said that....

It's really important to try to at least state the different arguments on these issues. The reason I made the edits that I made was that the original text seemed to imply that the issue was one-sided whereas both sides have some very good legal arguments to justify their positions. The basic situation is that IMHO both Senkaku and the Taiwan disputes are going to be impossible to resolve via a reading and interpretation of legal documents because the drafters of the documents were aware of the disputes and were very, very careful to draft the documents in a way that made the situation ambiguous.

Roadrunner 17:34, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

The current article says: In 1972, the United States "reversion" of the Ryūkyūs occurred along with the ceding of control over the nearby (uninhabited) Senkaku Islands without taking a position on the ultimate sovereignty of the Senkaku Islands, which are claimed by both the People's Republic of China and the Republic of China (Taiwan).

This is totally incorrect.

The United States Military Goverment (USMG) had jurisdiction over the Ryukyu Island group according to SFPT Article 4b. Under military law and the laws of war, "military government continues until legally supplanted." A (Japanese) civil goverment for the Ryukyus then supplanted USMG as of May 15, 1972. The Senkaku/Tiaoyutai island group was included in the territorial definition of the Ryukyu Island group according to the determination of the principal occupying power (United States of America, as per SFPT Article 23a). In other words, the Senkaku/Tiaoyutai group has already been returned to Japan as of May 15, 1972. Again, under military law and the laws of war, any disputes over any "territorial boundaries" in relation to geographic entities encompassed in the scope of the treaty will be determined by the principal occupying power. The United States is the principal occupying power and the United States' announced position is that the Senkaku/Tiaoyutai group was returned to Japan as of May 15, 1972 as part of the Ryukyus.

To elaborate further, the Republic of China has no claims to the areas of "Formosa and the Pescadores", much less the Senkaku/Tiaoyutai group. "Formosa and the Pescadores" were Japanese territory until April 28, 1952, and the SFPT did not award the sovereignty of these areas to the ROC. Additionally, as other posters have pointed out, not being a signatory to the SFPT, the ROC can gain no benefits thereof. Moreover, the ROC National Assembly has never passed a resolution which would serve to incorporate "Formosa and the Pescadores" into ROC territory, and that is the specific requirement of Article 4 of the ROC Constitution. Hence, it is very very clear that without "territorial title" to the areas of Formosa and the Pescadores, the ROC on Taiwan is not a sovereign nation. Additionally, "Taiwan" (as spoken of in the Taiwan Relations Act), and over which the so-called Taiwan governing authorities exercise effective territorial control, does not include the Senkaku/Tiaoyutai group.

The PRC likes to claim jurisdiction over Formosa and the Pescadores, Senkaku/Tiaoyutai group, etc. based on the successor government principle, but such an argument quickly collapses when we realize that the ROC never had sovereignty over these areas in the first place. Hmortar 15:53, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

There was one case here in which the islands in dispute were called "Diaoyu" (i.e. the Chinese name); I changed that to "Senkaku" as other mentions of the islands use this name, as does the Wikipedia article concerning them. Chuborno (talk) 21:55, 24 August 2012 (UTC)

Sources for the numbers in the two tables
Overall, very little sources were cited in this article. Would someone please reference the appropriate publications that would augment the figures?--144.189.5.201 (talk) 02:28, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

Sentence on self-determination
"In addition, in more recent years supporters of Taiwan independence have more often relied on arguments based on self-determination as implied in the San Francisco Peace Treaty and popular sovereignty." I propose striking the notion of the SFPT somehow implying a right of self-determination, because AFAIK self-determination does not derive from any treaty, but rather is based on a human rights idea in general. This sentence, FWIW, is also unsourced. Ngchen (talk) 13:40, 17 June 2009 (UTC)

 * If you are familiar with international laws and the principles regarding valid international treaties(such as SF Peace Treaty), you would know that every single valid treaty signed and ratified by member states of the UN must be registered with the secretariat and the obligations set forth in the treaties must not violate the obligations of member states in the UN charter, "In the event of a conflict between the obligations of the Members of the United Nations under the present Charter and their obligations under any other international agreement, their obligations under the present Charter shall prevail"(Article 143).

 * The UN charter explicitly states that "2. All Members, in order to ensure to all of them the rights and benefits resulting from membership, shall fulfill in good faith the obligations assumed by them in accordance with the present Charter."(Article 2 section 2) That pretty much means every member state needs to abide by the charter. The charter states the purpose of UN is to, "2. To develop friendly relations among nations based on respect for the principle of equal rights and self-determination of peoples, and to take other appropriate measures to strengthen universal peace; "(Article 1 Section 2)

 * Under SF Peace Treaty, the treaty its self and every signing country including Japan(expressed intent to be a member of UN) will need to adhere to the UN charter. So, if SF Peace Treaty states that Japan has renounced the sovereignty rights of Taiwan and not transferred it to any other state... the people of Taiwan become eligible to have the right to self-determination for the sake of strengthen universal peace. And all member states need to respect that if the Taiwanese does take the opportunity to exercise that right. Self-determination is implied by San Francisco Peace Treaty in that respect. Of course, the long explanation would be irrelevant on the SFPT wiki page. Wiki is about stating facts, not to explain the concepts in detail, so I apologize for the confusion. Hope the explanation helps.151.151.7.56 (talk) 18:56, 17 June 2009 (UTC)

End of World War II?
According to the World War II article on this Web site this treaty arguably ended the WWII. However, it is debatable depending on where you live. Should this article reflect this? 68.100.66.192 (talk) 02:35, 12 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Formally, the surrender only marks cease of active hostilities but the peace treaty is what terminates the war. So, I would agree SFPT is what ended the war.Mafia godfather (talk) 13:14, 12 January 2010 (UTC)
 * It should be noted that because the Korean War was in full swing there was no Korean delegation at the conference. Neither Wikipedia nor any other source I can find lists Korea as having ever signed a peace treaty with Japan.  And today the Japanese Prime Minister announced that U.S. troops would be staying in Okinawa, which is Japanese soil. Simesa (talk) 12:53, 23 May 2010 (UTC)

Name usage of Diaoyu Island
The Diaoyu Island is the formal name, not Senkakus — Preceding unsigned comment added by 168.159.144.57 (talk) 01:40, 24 August 2012 (UTC)

UK peace treaty with Japan
The UK was at war with Japan as a result of the Japanese invasion of the British Far East Empire, ie. Malaya, Singapore,Hong Kong, Brunei etc and before the atack on Pearl Harbour.

The 1945 UK government under Clement Atlee only got as a far as draft peace treaty with Japan. There seems to be no signed Final Peace Treaty document in the Public Archive.

As a result the Burma Star Association claimed that technically the UK and Japan are officially still in a continuing state of hostilities.

This technicality was used, by the BSA under the 13th. century Treason Act to prevent the Duke of Edindurgh from attending the Japanese Emperor Hirohitos funeral as the UKs official mourner. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.93.199.154 (talk) 09:47, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

Compensation to Allied civilians and POWs
In this section, the article ought to include several more pertinent facts: -- First, that some nations made separate reparations agreements with Japan and received compensation for their surviving POW's and civilian prisoners: Switzerland and Burma (1955); the Netherlands (1956). -- That the UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand finally made ex gratia payments on their own, from their own taxpayers, not Japan. -- That both the British and USA governments deliberately concealed or buried references to Article 26, until declassifications in 1998 exposed the truth. -- That a number of U.S. POW's filed lawsuits in the 1990's, one of which went to the U.S. Supreme Court, where it was rejected. This is all documented in many books, among them THE REAL TENKO by Dr. Felton (see page 156) and Unjust Enrichment by Holmes. Starhistory22 (talk) 00:37, 22 June 2016 (UTC)

Two different articles?
what’s the difference between this article and the Security Treaty Between the United States and Japan? It looks like as if it’s representing the same thing. Carrots3141592 (talk) 04:32, 8 January 2022 (UTC)

 * Treaty of San Francisco is the one that officially ended the war between all of the Allies and Japan. I'm not familiar with the one you linked, but it appears to be related to only the US and Japan --Matt Smith (talk) 06:13, 8 January 2022 (UTC)

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I removed your link because it is not in English, thus does not belong on the English side of the page. I've done all the edits recently as a request by another user on the cleanup page.

If you read the history, you would see why I did everything I did. "Back to the top" links are not used in wikipedia articles, so there's no need to add them as they clutter things up. [[User talk:Tomf688|Tom]] 01:51, Oct 20, 2004 (UTC)

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Zoot Suit Riot (album)

Zoot Suit Riot: The Swingin' Hits of the Cherry Poppin' Daddies is a compilation album by the American band the Cherry Poppin' Daddies, released on March 18, 1997, by Space Age Bachelor Pad Records. The album is a collection of swing and jazz-influenced songs from the band's first three studio albums, along with four bonus tracks recorded especially for this compilation.

After an independent release in early 1997, Zoot Suit Riot was reissued by Universal Records subsidiary Mojo Records the following summer. By early 1998, regular radio airplay of the album's lead single "Zoot Suit Riot" helped propel the album to #1 on Billboard's Top Heatseekers chart and eventually the top 20 of the Billboard 200, contributing to the swing revival of the late 1990s. By January 2000, Zoot Suit Riot had achieved double-platinum status of over two million copies sold in the United States, while also attaining gold record sales in Canada and New Zealand.

Background
By 1996, having spent seven years performing within the Northwest punk and ska underground, the Cherry Poppin' Daddies had independently released three studio albums while steadily gaining recognition in the American ska scene at a time when the genre was beginning to generate mainstream commercial interest on the heels of bands such as No Doubt and Sublime. At this time, largely following the success of the 1996 film Swingers, which prominently showcased the Los Angeles swing revival movement, public attention also started turning towards swing music, which had been slowly emerging within the west coast alternative underground pioneered by bands such as Royal Crown Revue and Big Bad Voodoo Daddy.

Though the Daddies has been a better-known presence in the ska scene, the band eventually began drawing a sizable audience for their swing songs as they continued to tour alongside ska bands. Facing an unexpected demand for their swing music - which until then had only been a partial component of their repertoire behind punk, funk and ska - the Daddies realized they lacked an album which fully represented their swing and jazz influences, and more so lacked the finances to record a new one. Singer-songwriter Steve Perry explained how the concept of a compilation came to be in an interview for The Daily of the University of Washington:

We didn't want to be a "swing band". What happened was that our manager said, "Everybody comes up and they ask me which CD has the most swing on it," - that's what we mostly played live - "and I don't know what the fuck to tell them because two of the CDs have the same amount and the other has less. So it's between these, and I don't know what to do. I swear to God, if you put all of those swing songs on one record, people would just shit. They would really want that, because how many people have all three Cherry Poppin' Daddies records?" "Well, none." "Well, yeah. There you go." And I went, "I don't think that a band from Eugene with three records could put a greatest hits record out." "Then record some new songs." We had talked about it for a while, and we decided to do it. And it was cheap. So we did it.

Release
Recording for the album's bonus tracks took place in late 1996, and according to accounts by Perry, was hurried and carried out on a tight budget as the band "didn't have much bread to record". In several instances, only single takes were used: at the end of the album's titular song, Perry is heard saying "I think I'm about ready to sing it now", which he was signifying to the engineer after doing his first run-through of the song. The engineer instead told him it was a decent take and suggested keeping his comment in the final mix as an inside joke, to which Perry ultimately agreed ("Unbeknownst to us, it became a big hit record").

Zoot Suit Riot was released through the Daddies' self-operated record label Space Age Bachelor Pad Records on March 18, 1997. In its initial pressing, the album became an unexpectedly popular item, reportedly selling as many as 4,000 copies a week through both the band's tours and their Northwest distributors. Despite steady regional sales, obtaining wider distribution and marketing outside of the Northwest proved difficult through the band's entirely DIY label. Following a national tour together, ska band Reel Big Fish helped arrange a meeting between the Daddies and their label Mojo Records in an attempt to score the band a distribution deal, negotiations of which instead led to the Daddies being signed to a record contract. Zoot Suit Riot was re-issued and given national distribution by Mojo on July 1, 1997, less than four months after its original release.

By October 1997, the rising mainstream popularity of swing music had resulted in consistently steady sales of Zoot Suit Riot, motivating Mojo to release the album's title track as a single and distribute it among modern rock radio stations. The Daddies, who were in preparation over recording a new studio album, ardently protested Mojo's decision under the belief that a swing song would never receive airplay on mainstream radio and the band would likely have to recoup the costs of its marketing. Nevertheless, Mojo persisted, and to the band's surprise, "Zoot Suit Riot" soon found regular rotation on both college radio and major stations such as Los Angeles' influential KROQ-FM.

Mainstream breakthrough
Following several months of steady radio airplay coupled with the Daddies' extensive touring schedule, Zoot Suit Riot eventually climbed to the #1 spot on Billboard's Top Heatseekers chart, going on to become the first album of the swing revival to crack the top 40 of the Billboard 200 and peaking at #17, spending an ultimate total of 53 weeks on the charts. In June 1998, the album achieved gold status after surpassing sales of 500,000 copies, reaching platinum status of over one million records sold two months later on August 25. On January 28, 2000, Zoot Suit Riot was awarded double platinum status after selling over two million copies.

The album's lead single, "Zoot Suit Riot", became a moderate radio hit, reaching #41 on the Hot 100 and appearing on numerous compilation albums, notably the very first US installment of Now That's What I Call Music!, while the surrealistic music video, directed by Gregory Dark and edited by Bob Murawski, earned a nomination for a "Best New Artist in a Video" award at the 1998 MTV Video Music Awards. Two additional singles were issued from Zoot Suit Riot, "Brown Derby Jump", for which a music video was filmed, and a remixed version of "Here Comes the Snake" from the Daddies' 1996 album Kids on the Street, though both singles failed to chart. According to Perry in a 2016 Tweet, "Drunk Daddy" was intended to be the second single released from Zoot Suit Riot, but at the time Seagram had controlling interest in MCA and Universal Music Group, and the band's proposal of issuing a single about a violent alcoholic father was dismissed.

Once Zoot Suit Riot began rising up the charts in early 1998, Mojo insisted that the Daddies immediately began touring behind it, forcing the band to abandon their follow-up studio album which they had already started recording. With a successful headlining tour of the United States supported by The Pietasters and Ozomatli, a North American tour opening for Los Fabulosos Cadillacs and international touring as part of the 1998 Vans Warped Tour, the Daddies ultimately toured behind Zoot Suit Riot for over a year, playing nearly 300 shows in 1998 alone. During this time, the band also made high-profile appearances on major television shows including The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Late Show with David Letterman, The View and Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve, each time performing their hit single "Zoot Suit Riot".

By the end of the decade, both Zoot Suit Riot and the Daddies' mainstream popularity declined with that of the swing revival. The album last appeared on the Billboard 200 on the week of February 27, 1999, charting at #193 before slipping off entirely.

Reception
Despite the album's commercial success, Zoot Suit Riot met with largely mixed reactions from mainstream critics. Of the positive reviews, The Los Angeles Times, comparing albums by the most popular groups of the swing revival, chose the Daddies as having "the most effective music for the dance fad of the moment", citing the band's "suggestive lyrics and occasionally interesting musical textures" as their most distinguishing quality. The New York Times described the Daddies as "one of the few neo-swing bands that can win over a skeptic with their rhythm section", noting Perry's lyricism as having "an inventiveness missing from most of the other swing bands' lyrics".

Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic, however, gave the album a rating of 2.5 out of 5 stars, noting that while the Daddies pulled off "reasonably infectious" tunes, the modernist lyrics had lent Zoot Suit Riot a "condescending Gen-X attitude, as well as a lack of understanding about what made swing fun", writing the album off as a "smirking hipster joke, only without any humor and very little music". The jazz critic Scott Yanow, in his 2000 book Swing!, labeled the Daddies as the perfect "whipping boy for the Retro Swing movement", noting, "The Daddies sound as if they are a punk rock band who has chosen to masquerade as swing...the rhythm section has difficulty swinging, the vocals are often profane...the music, although excitable in spots, usually comes dangerously close to camp."

Perry's reflection on the album has been decidedly ambivalent, which he has described in interviews as being a "blessing as well as a curse", noting that while Zoot Suit Riot had exposed the Daddies' music to a wider audience and provided them with the financial stability to continue as a band, the success of the album continues to paint a one-dimensional image of the Daddies as an "orthodox swing band" over the prominently eclectic ska, punk and rock influences which largely feature in their music.

20th anniversary edition
In mid-2014, Perry revealed that he had re-obtained the rights to Zoot Suit Riot from Jive Records and planned to release a remixed version of the album. In interviews, Perry lamented the fact that the production of the album had been rushed and that only first takes had been used, noting that the band could have done "2 or 3 more" takes of the songs "if we had known the future back in 1996". He stated elsewhere, "I guess my thought is, after 25 years [of the band], I would like to make the record sound a little better."

Zoot Suit Riot: The 20th Anniversary Edition was released exclusively by the band on CD and vinyl on January 13, 2017, with five bonus live tracks recorded during the Zoot Suit Riot tour in 1998.

Track listing
All songs written and composed by Perry, except where noted otherwise.

 * Later Mojo pressings of the album included a hidden Spanish-language version of "Zoot Suit Riot" after a long period of silence in the same track as "Shake Your Lovemaker".

Previous availability

 * "2:29" was previously a B-side that appeared on the 7-inch single Vacationing in Palm Springs, and later appeared on the UK and Australian "Zoot Suit Riot" singles.

Personnel

 * Steve Perry – vocals, guitar
 * Dana Heitman – trumpet, trombone
 * Ian Early – alto saxophone, tenor saxophone
 * Sean Flannery – tenor saxophone
 * Jason Moss – guitar
 * Darren Cassidy – bass guitar
 * Tim Donahue – drums

Additional musicians
 * Glen Bonney – trombone on tracks 1, 15
 * Bud Chase – tuba on track 3
 * Mark Alan – backing vocals on track 15

The First Church of Sinatra
 * Tim Allums – trumpet
 * Mark Berney – trumpet
 * Dave Van Handel – trombone
 * Glen Bonney – trombone
 * Wayne Conkey – bass trombone
 * Ross Warren – alto saxophone
 * Tim Wilcox – alto saxophone
 * James Phillips – tenor saxophone
 * Richard Coon (Temple) – baritone saxophone

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Shouldn't this title be reserved for the historical "Zoot Suit Riot", with the contents of this article renamed Zoot Suit Riot (album)? Silly Dan 05:01, 2005 Feb 10 (UTC)

Yes, absolutely. Should reflect something like: "Zoot Suit Riot of 1943, a week-long clash between white, off-duty U.S. sailors and Mexican American youths identified by the distinctive suits they wore. Over the course of the riots, the sailors beat and harassed Mexicans and Mexican Americans while local authorities looked the other way" (Encarta, http://encarta.msn.com/text_761563055__1/Los_Angeles.html).

 * Sounds good. This article can go to Zoot Suit Riot (album), and that article can go here, preferably with a disambiguation at the top. However, please try to find more information than just the Encarta entry (multiple sources are research, but one source...). — Asbestos | Talk  8 July 2005 12:08 (UTC)

 * Yes that is the proper content; it already exists at Zoot Suit Riots, and it is the subject of multiple books, like the one I'm reading now: Murder at the Sleepy Lagoon: Zoot Suits, Race & Riot in Wartime L.A. by Eduardo Pagán.--ragesoss 04:38, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

--NPswimdude500 05:24, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

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Weeds (TV series)

Weeds is an American dark comedy-drama   television series created by Jenji Kohan, which aired on Showtime from August 8, 2005, to September 16, 2012. The series tells of Nancy Botwin (Mary-Louise Parker), a widowed mother of two boys (Hunter Parrish and Alexander Gould) who begins selling marijuana to support her family. Other main characters include Nancy's lax brother-in-law (Justin Kirk); foolish accountant Doug Wilson (Kevin Nealon); narcissistic neighbor Celia Hodes (Elizabeth Perkins) living with her husband (Andy Milder) and their daughter (Allie Grant); as well as Nancy's wholesalers Heylia James (Tonye Patano) and Conrad Shepard (Romany Malco). Over the course of the series, the Botwin family becomes increasingly entangled in illegal activity.

Kohan serves as showrunner and is executive producer, under her Tilted Productions label. The first three seasons are set primarily in the fictional town of Agrestic, located in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles, California. During seasons four and five, the Botwins reside in the also fictional San Diego suburb of Ren Mar. In season six, the family relocates to Seattle, Washington and Dearborn, Michigan. In season seven, the family resides in New York City, living in Manhattan for the duration of the season, but relocates to Connecticut in the season seven finale and throughout season eight.

When the show debuted on the Showtime cable network, it earned the channel's highest ratings. In 2012, TV Guide Network bought the airing rights and provided an edited version of the show free of charge. The show has received numerous awards, including two Emmy Awards, two Satellite Awards, one Golden Globe Award, a Writers Guild Award, and a Young Artist Award.

Production
Produced by Tilted Productions, in association with Lionsgate Television, the show is inspired by crime series, such as The Shield and The Sopranos, in the sense of an antihero serving as the protagonist while retaining an individual moral code, which usually goes against the norms of society. The title, according to Kohan, refers "to a lot of things", including marijuana and widow's weeds; however, it mainly alludes to "hardy plants struggling to survive". The basic premise, as illustrated by the lyrics of the opening song from seasons one to three, and eight, satirizes off-color characters struggling with faux suburban reality, in which everything is "all style, no substance". According to Kohan, she first pitched the series to HBO, which dismissed it. Robert Greenblatt invested in the show before it was commissioned by Showtime.

Showrunner and head writer Jenji Kohan, whose credits include Tracey Takes On..., Mad About You, and Sex and the City, is the executive producer of the series, alongside Roberto Benabib, of Little City fame. Kohan also explains how she and Benabib "tag team[ed]" in running the writers room. Senior writer Matthew Salsberg and director Craig Zisk also joined as executive producers in later seasons. Following Zisk's departure from the series after five seasons, Mark Burley, director Scott Ellis, and Lisa Vinnecour were added on as executive producers. During seasons seven and eight, senior writers Victoria Morrow and Stephen Falk became co-executive producers.

Exterior scenes for the first two seasons were shot almost exclusively in Stevenson Ranch, a suburban area of Santa Clarita Valley, California. The large fountain and Agrestic sign in the opening credits of the first three seasons was shot at the corner of Stevenson Ranch Parkway and Holmes Place. The name "Stevenson Ranch" was digitally replaced with "Agrestic" (and with "Majestic" and "Regrestic" in later episodes). The overhead satellite view in the beginning of the credits in the first three seasons is of Calabasas Hills, a gated community in Calabasas, California. The shot of the It's A Grind coffee shop in the introduction (seasons one to three) is of an It's A Grind in Castaic, California. The show was originally filmed at Red Studios, previously known as Ren-Mar studios. The show moved to Universal Studios in Los Angeles for season seven, where it is noted on the studio tour. A version of this Wikipedia page served as the introduction for the season five episode titled "Where the Sidewalk Ends".

Series opening
Nancy Botwin is a single mother who lives in Agrestic—a fictional suburb of Los Angeles—with her two children, 15-year-old Silas and 10-year-old Shane, when the series begins. The pilot opens a few months after the untimely death of Nancy's husband Judah, who had a heart attack while jogging with their younger son. Nancy begins selling marijuana to maintain the upper middle-class lifestyle originally provided by her late husband's salary. References to conspicuous consumption are evident from the show's beginning episodes. The opening credits are set to Malvina Reynolds' "Little Boxes" song, which speaks of suburbanites from the same mold, all living the consumerist American dream. Visual and auditory references to designer labels, luxury homes, SUVs, plastic surgery, and expensive sugary drinks point to the consumption habits of the Agrestic characters. Nancy's desire to maintain her comfortable suburban lifestyle is the impetus for her decision to enter the illegal drug business and is another example of extreme consumerism in suburbia. The series follows Nancy's life as she gets drawn into the criminal system, develops a client base, starts a front to hide her selling, creates her own strain of weed called MILF, and relocates her family to stay out of jail and protect her children. Featured in the ensemble cast are her lazy, wisecracking brother-in-law Andy Botwin; foolish acquaintance Doug Wilson; and narcissistic neighbor and PTA mother Celia Hodes.

Cast and characters

The principal character is Nancy Price Botwin (Mary-Louise Parker), a housewife from Southern California who becomes a marijuana dealer after her husband Judah (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) dies. Although her drug-dealing career achieves mixed success, she eventually rises to the highest levels of an international drug-smuggling cartel. Nancy remarries three times during the series. First, she has an under-the-radar wedding with Peter Scottson (Martin Donovan), a DEA agent, who is later killed. In season five, she marries Esteban Reyes (Demián Bichir), the fictional mayor of Tijuana and leader of a cartel, who is murdered by the seventh season. While in prison, Nancy also establishes a long-term relationship with Zoya (Olga Sosnovska), a woman convicted of murdering her own boyfriend. In the series finale, which leaps forward seven years, viewers come to know that Nancy marries Rabbi David Bloom (David Julian Hirsh), who later dies in a car accident.

Throughout most of the show, Nancy shares her house with her brother-in-law Andy Botwin (Justin Kirk). When Andy arrives in Agrestic, he is little more than a fun-loving slacker (albeit a handsome and charming one), and Nancy views him as a burden. Nonetheless, he emerges as the primary father figure in the household; her children adore him and there is the suggestion that Nancy and her sons view Andy as their last link to Judah. Andy falls in love with Nancy during the fourth season but eventually realizes his feelings are unreciprocated. Nancy tries to balance their relationship to keep him "in the family." When he is not helping Nancy run her household, Andy engages in various educational and business ventures, from studying to be a rabbi in Hebrew school, to marijuana dealer, to entrepreneurial bicycle salesman. He also has a passion for cooking, becoming a professional chef by the sixth season.

Nancy begins the series with two sons, who after Judah's death are raised haphazardly. In the fifth season, she has a son, Stevie Ray Botwin (portrayed by uncredited babies and later by Ethan and Gavin Kent), with Esteban Reyes. Her first son, Silas (Hunter Parrish), who has been sexually active since the show's debut, later follows in his mother's footsteps: he becomes a marijuana dealer, grower, and dispensary operator.

Nancy's younger son, Shane (Alexander Gould), is highly intelligent yet poorly socialized and vulgar; he is deeply affected by his father's death and yearns for more attention from his mother. In the first three seasons, Shane was also frequently bullied in school. After his peers harassed him in the bathroom for his sexual inexperience, his uncle pursues his request in taking him for a handjob at the local massage parlor. He is portrayed as having psychological issues. For instance, just before leaving Agrestic, Shane has conversations with his dead father. Upon moving to Ren Mar, he loses his virginity and becomes a temporary alcoholic. Shane also engages in violence: When he overhears his mother's conversation with Estaban's scornful boss and political consultant Pilar, who threatens his and Silas' life, Shane murders Pilar by abruptly striking her over the head with a croquet mallet before her body collapses into the pool. By the seventh season, he joins the police academy before receiving his criminal justice degree — working for the New York City Police Department in season eight.

Celia Hodes (Elizabeth Perkins) is Nancy's "frenemy". Obsessed with her personal image, she manipulates those around her who do not fit neatly into that image. She is unhappily married to Dean (Andy Milder) whom she regards as a "loser asshole"; they later divorce. Other characters also dislike her. Celia's older daughter, Quinn (Haley Hudson), kidnaps her as revenge for shipping her to a reform school in Mexico. She is also demanding over her younger daughter Isabelle's (Allie Grant) "weight problem," and disapproves of her being a lesbian. At the end of the first season, Celia is diagnosed with breast cancer and cured with chemotherapy. When interrogated by the police over Nancy's grow house in Celia's home burning down the city, Dean, Doug, and other characters falsely allege that Celia coordinated it, which leads to her arrest. Following her release from prison, she becomes addicted to cocaine, so Isabelle arranges a rehab home intervention. Celia later becomes envious of Nancy; therefore, she dresses like her. After the fifth season, the actress left to pursue other projects.

Doug Wilson (Kevin Nealon) begins the series as an accountant and city councilman for the town of Agrestic. Doug is friends with many characters in the series including Andy, Dean, and Sanjay Patel (Maulik Pancholy); all four aid Nancy's career as a marijuana dealer. Doug makes mistakes and loses his position; his wife Dana leaves him. He becomes a drifter who follows the Botwins during seasons four through eight. He and the Botwins move to New York City, where he becomes the chief accountant for a Ponzi scheme posing as a hedge fund.

The show has a changing cast of supporting characters. Heylia James (Tonye Patano) and her family — Conrad and Vaneeta, portrayed by Romany Malco and Indigo, respectively — play key roles during the first three seasons. They are wholesalers who supply marijuana to Nancy. Conrad later develops his own strain of marijuana, called MILF weed, which Nancy sells.

Season three features Sullivan Groff (Matthew Modine), an unethical, womanizing real estate developer with big plans for Agrestic. When Nancy moves to Ren Mar, the characters in Esteban's drug cartel—primarily Cesar (Enrique Castillo), Ignacio (Hemky Madera), and Guillermo (Guillermo Díaz), the latter first appearing in the third season—take a leading role. Other key characters include Nancy's housekeeper Lupita (Renée Victor); rival drug dealers; countless law enforcement officials; the romantic interests of Andy, Silas, and Shane; and the residents of Agrestic and Ren Mar.

In the sixth season, Nancy is on the run, and the new characters only have minor roles and appear for only a few episodes. An exception to this is Warren Schiff (Richard Dreyfuss), who she first met when teaching her math in high school; he becomes infatuated with Nancy. When the Botwins and Doug settle in New York City, new supporting characters are introduced. The family later settles in Nancy's estranged sister Jill's (Jennifer Jason Leigh) house in Connecticut, becoming a regular guest character by the eighth season.

Other recurring characters include Albert Brooks as Nancy's father-in-law Lenny, Carrie Fisher as Celia's lawyer, Dave Thomas as a doctor, Martin Short as a lawyer for Nancy's custody battle, Alanis Morissette as a doctor at an abortion clinic, Zooey Deschanel as Andy's estranged girlfriend, Lee Majors as a border guard, Mary-Kate Olsen as a student who worships Jesus and sells pot, as well as Aidan Quinn, among others.

Episodes
As of September 16, 2012, 102 original episodes have been broadcast. The first season began August 8, 2005, and consisted of 10 episodes. The second season premiered on August 14, 2006, airing 12 episodes. The third season debuted on August 13, 2007, airing 15 episodes. The fourth season began June 16, 2008, the fifth season on June 8, 2009, and the sixth in August 2010, each with 13 episodes. The seventh season began airing on June 27, 2011, and, as of November 10, 2011, Weeds was renewed for an eighth and final season of 13 episodes that premiered Sunday, July 1, 2012.

In 2006, before Season two’s airing, the first few episodes were leaked online. Before the third season began, the first two episodes appeared online on July 22, 2007 (nearly a month before the August 13 premiere date). The third episode appeared online on July 24, 2007, with the fourth appearing just three days later. The fourth episode was, however, an incomplete version—among other things, some dubbed lines were not complete (notably part of a voice mail message by U-Turn is spoken by a distinctly different actor), and a card simply reading "End Credits" was inserted instead of the actual credits. On August 1, 2010, the first episodes of season 6 leaked online. Due to the high quality of the leaked episodes, downloaders of the torrents speculated that they were leaked intentionally to garner interest in the show and to create internet buzz. Episode leaks of other Showtime programs such as Californication and Dexter were seen as giving weight to this theory.

Jenji Kohan has stated that she does not mind episodes being distributed on the internet in this way, saying, "Revenue aside, I don't expect to get rich on Weeds. I'm excited it's out there. Showtime is great, but it does have a limited audience." The show is rated TV-MA for drug content, profanity, nudity, brief violence, and other adult content.

Opening music
"Little Boxes" is the opening song for the first three seasons. The first season uses the version recorded by its composer Malvina Reynolds. In seasons two and three, the song is performed by various artists. In season four, the Malvina Reynolds version opens the first episode. Thereafter, the original titles and music are replaced by a short clip, different for each episode, that relates to the plot or some scene in the episode. The song is also subtly referenced in the eighth episode of the fourth season when a sleepy Nancy tells Shane that he's going to "...become a doctor or a lawyer or a business executive." In the opening credits of the eighth episode of season seven, a woman is heard humming the tune to "Little Boxes" as she arranges knickknacks on a shelf. In Season eight, the show returns to "Little Boxes" for the opening sequence.

 * Season 1
 * Malvina Reynolds

 * Season 2
 * 1) Elvis Costello
 * 2) Death Cab for Cutie
 * 3) Engelbert Humperdinck
 * 4) Kate & Anna McGarrigle (in French)
 * 5) Charlie (Charles Phelps) Barnett Jr (maestro; instrumental with orchestra)
 * 6) Aidan Hawken
 * 7) Ozomatli
 * 8) The Submarines
 * 9) Tim DeLaughter of Polyphonic Spree
 * 10) Regina Spektor
 * 11) Jenny Lewis and Johnathan Rice
 * 12) Malvina Reynolds

& Pete Seeger (closing)
 * Season 3
 * 1) Randy Newman
 * 2) Angelique Kidjo
 * 3) Kinky (in Spanish)
 * 4) Donovan
 * 5) Billy Bob Thornton
 * 6) The Shins
 * 7) The Individuals
 * 8) Man Man
 * 9) Joan Baez
 * 10) The Decemberists
 * 11) Michael Franti
 * 12) Persephone's Bees (partly in Russian)
 * 13) Laurie Berkner
 * 14) Linkin Park
 * 15) Malvina Reynolds (opening)

 * Season 8
 * 1) Malvina Reynolds
 * 2) Ben Folds
 * 3) Steve Martin & Kevin Nealon
 * 4) The Bronx
 * 5) The Mountain Goats
 * 6) Bomb the Music Industry!
 * 7) The Womenfolk
 * 8) The Thermals
 * 9) Dierks Bentley
 * 10) Hunter Parrish
 * 11) Aimee Mann
 * 12) Malvina Reynolds (Cut Chemist Remix)

Soundtracks
The music supervisors for the show include Gary Calamar (along with music coordinator Alyson Vidoli) (27 episodes), Amine Ramer (4 episodes), and Bruce Gilbert (3 episodes). The original score is provided by composers Brandon Jay and Gwendolyn Sanford.

 * Weeds : Music from the Original Series
 * Released September 13, 2005

 * 1) Malvina Reynolds – "Little Boxes"
 * 2) Nellie McKay – "David"
 * 3) Peggy Lee – "A Doodlin' Song"
 * 4) Sufjan Stevens – "All the Trees of the Field Will Clap Their Hands"
 * 5) Michael Franti & Spearhead – "Ganja Babe"
 * 6) All Too Much – "More Than a Friend"
 * 7) Sons & Daughters – "Blood"
 * 8) The New Pornographers – "The Laws Have Changed"
 * 9) Joey Santiago – "Fake Purse"
 * 10) NRBQ – "Wacky Tobacky"
 * 11) Marion Black – "Who Knows"
 * 12) Martin Creed – "I Can't Move"
 * 13) The Mountain Goats – "Cotton"
 * 14) Joey Santiago – "Birthday Video"
 * 15) Flogging Molly – "If I Ever Leave This World Alive"
 * 16) The Be Good Tanyas – "The Littlest Birds"
 * 17) Hill Of Beans – "Satan Lend Me a Dollar"

 * Weeds : Music from the Original Series, Volume 2
 * Released October 17, 2006

 * 1) Elvis Costello – "Little Boxes"
 * 2) Zeroleen – "All Good"
 * 3) Of Montreal – "Wraith Pinned to the Mist and Other Games"
 * 4) Jenny Owen Youngs – "Fuck Was I"
 * 5) Fern Jones – "Strange Things Are Happening"
 * 6) (The Real) Tuesday Weld – "Bathtime in Clerkenwell"
 * 7) Gwendolyn Sanford & Brandon Jay – "Shane Digs Gretchen"
 * 8) Rogue Wave – "Kicking the Heart Out"
 * 9) Regina Spektor – "The Ghost of Corporate Future"
 * 10) Dengue Fever – "One Thousand Tears of a Tarantula"
 * 11) Aidan Hawken – "Neighborhood"
 * 12) Squirrel Nut Zippers – "It Ain't You"
 * 13) Gwendolyn Sanford & Brandon Jay – "From Agrestic to Las Vegas"
 * 14) The 88 – "Not Enough"
 * 15) Sufjan Stevens – "Holland"
 * 16) Gwendolyn Sanford & Brandon Jay – "Huskaroo TV Spot"
 * 17) The Mopes – "You Look Like a Gorilla"

 * Weeds : Music from the Original Series, Volume 3
 * Released June 3, 2008 as digital-only release, retail release July 8.

 * 1) Randy Newman – "Little Boxes"
 * 2) Page France – "Chariot"
 * 3) That 1 Guy – "Buttmachine"
 * 4) Beirut – "Scenic World"
 * 5) The Dresden Dolls – "Girl Anachronism"
 * 6) Ween – "You Fucked Up"
 * 7) Oh No! Oh My! – "Walk in the Park"
 * 8) Illinois – "Nosebleed"
 * 9) Great Lake Swimmers – "Your Rocky Spine"
 * 10) Mr. Smolin – "The Earth Keeps Turning On"
 * 11) Kevin Nealon – "Just Like The Superdome"
 * 12) State Radio – "Keepsake"
 * 13) Eleni Mandell – "Let's Drive Away"
 * 14) The Shins – "Little Boxes" (iTunes Exclusive)

 * Weeds : Music from the Original Series, Volume 4
 * Released June 9, 2009

 * 1) DeVotchKa – "A New World"
 * 2) Nortec Collective – "Tengo La Voz"
 * 3) Greg Weeks – "Made"
 * 4) The Free Design – "Love You"
 * 5) That Handsome Devil – "Mexico"
 * 6) Miss Li – "Don't Try to Fool Me"
 * 7) Tunng – "Bullets"
 * 8) Mucca Pazza – "Borino Oro"
 * 9) Los Mono – "Se Puede"
 * 10) Linus of Hollywood – "Thank You for Making Me Feel Better"
 * 11) The Mountain Goats – "International Small Arms Traffic Blues"
 * 12) Toots & The Maytals – "Celia"
 * 13) Soul Swingers – "Brighter Tomorrow"

Home media
The Region 1 Season One DVD is only available in 4:3 pan and scan format. The Region 2 and 4 releases are all in anamorphic widescreen. Season one was released on Blu-ray on May 29, 2007, and Season two was released on July 24, 2007. Both seasons include all episodes in 1080p widescreen with Dolby Digital EX sound and either DTS-HD (season one) or LPCM (season two), as well as extras exclusive to the Blu-ray release. Season three was released on Blu-ray on June 3, 2008. Seasons one to three on Blu-ray are multi-region discs; however, season four has been region-locked to region A only.

In late 2009, Weeds seasons four and five have been aired in at least one region B country, namely The Netherlands. Subsequently, a region 2 DVD of Season 4 has indeed been released. However, the region 2 DVD release was not accompanied by a region B Blu-ray. Showtime has not commented on whether they ever anticipate releasing a region B Blu-ray version, or if any further non-US transmission rights are agreed. The same region locking has been applied to Blu-ray for season five. In November 2011, Seasons 2–5 were released on Region B Blu-ray in Australia with Season 6 Region B Blu-ray released December 16, 2011. Blu-ray season seven is now available.

An extra feature on the Season Two DVD (a marijuana-based cooking show parody) was rejected by the British Board of Film Classification since it was regarded as "likely [...] to promote and encourage the use of illegal drugs".

Books
On August 7, 2007, Simon Spotlight, a division of Simon and Schuster, published In the Weeds: The Official Guide to the Showtime Series by Kera Bolonik, which features interviews with the series creator/showrunner, its other writer-producers, and the entire cast. It also features detailed character and plot descriptions, recipes, trivia and behind-the-scenes information.

Reception
In its first year, Weeds was Showtime's highest rated series. The season 4 premiere attracted 1.3 million viewers to Showtime, the channel's then-highest-ever viewership; the season as a whole averaged 962,000 viewers.

As the season 3 began in fall 2007, Slate named Nancy Botwin as one of the best characters on television. TIME magazine's James Poniewozik ranked Weeds #9 among the Top 10 Returning Series of 2007. The New York Times opined the show is "transforming for Showtime." Metacritic scored season 2 78 out of 100, season 4 67 out of 100, and season 5 73 out of 100.

Critical reception
The first season received mostly positive reviews from critics. Metacritic rated it 70 out of 100, based on the opinions of 29 critics. The second season achieved a Metacritic rating of 78 out of 100, based on 16 critics, and the third season reached a series-high score of 82 out of 100, based on 12 critics. The critical reviews dipped after season 3, reaching a low Metacritic rating of 55 out of 100 (based on 4 critics) for season 6.

Awards and nominations
Nominations

Emmy Awards
 * Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series Elizabeth Perkins (2006, 2007, 2009)
 * Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series Craig Zisk, for the episode "Good Shit Lollipop" (2006)
 * Outstanding Casting for a Comedy Series (2006, 2007)
 * Outstanding Main Title Design (2006)
 * Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing for a Comedy Series, for the episode "Good Shit Lollipop" (2006)
 * Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series Mary-Louise Parker (2007, 2008, 2009)
 * Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing for a Comedy Series, for the episode "Mrs. Botwin's Neighborhood" (2007)
 * Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing for a Comedy Series, for the episode "Crush Girl Love Panic" (2007)
 * Outstanding Comedy Series (2009)

Golden Globes
 * Best TV Series-Comedy (2006, 2007, 2009)
 * Best Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-series, or TV Movie Elizabeth Perkins (2006): Best Performance by a TV Supporting Actress Elizabeth Perkins (2006, 2007)
 * Best Performance by a TV Actress in a Musical or Comedy Mary-Louise Parker (2005, 2007, 2008)
 * Best Performance by a TV Supporting Actor Justin Kirk (2007)

Screen Actors Guild
 * Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series Mary-Louise Parker (2006, 2007, 2008, 2009)
 * Ensemble In A Comedy Series (2007, 2009)

Satellite Awards
 * Outstanding Actress in a Series-Comedy Elizabeth Perkins (2005)
 * Best Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-series, or TV Movie Elizabeth Perkins (2006)
 * Best Actress in a Series, Comedy or Musical Mary-Louise Parker (2006, 2008)
 * Best Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series, or TV Movie Justin Kirk (2007)
 * Best Television Series, Comedy or Musical (2007, 2008)

Sequel
In November 2019, Variety reported that a sequel series was in development at Starz, titled Weeds 4.20. The series was to feature Mary-Louise Parker and Elizabeth Perkins reprising their roles with the story set 10 years after the conclusion of the original series. Victoria Morrow, who was a producer on the writing team for Weeds, was set to return as writer and executive producer on the spin-off series, while Kohan was not confirmed to be involved.

In May 2023, Deadline reported again that Parker was attached to star in and executive produce a Weeds project, now moved back to Showtime. Responding to the rumors, Parker told The Guardian, "every time I ask, it seems to be closer [...] but because of the strike, we don’t know". Justin Kirk expressed doubt on the sequel's future in a separate interview in Variety, saying "do you really want to see us all old and coming back?"

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