In July 1952, right after the San Francisco Peace Treaty came into effect, in response to the desire of the U.S. Forces to continue to use Takeshima as a training area, the Japan-U.S. Joint Committee, established as the consultative body for the implementation of the Japan-U.S. Administrative Agreement (an agreement based on the former Japan-U.S. Security Treaty, which was later succeeded by the current Japan-U.S. Status of Forces Agreement), designated Takeshima as a bombing range for the U.S. Forces stationed in Japan. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs published this fact in its official gazette.

However, because local residents wished to engage in sea lion hunting, abalone fishing and seaweed harvesting in the waters around Takeshima, and the U.S. Forces had stopped using Takeshima as a bombing range as of the winter of 1952, in March 1953 the Joint Committee decided to release Takeshima from the designation of a bombing range for the U.S. Forces.