(1) The Agreement Announcement of the Board of Information, December 11, 1941
In the unflexible determination not to lay down arms until the common war against the United States and the British Empire is successfully concluded, the Imperial Japanese Government, the German Government and the Italian Government have agreed upon the following stipulations.
Article 1 Japan, Germany and Italy shall prosecute the war forced upon them by the United States of America and the British Empire with all forceful means at their command until it ends in their victory.
Article 2 Japan, Germany and Italy pledge that, without complete understanding between themselves, they will not conclude armistice or peace with either the United States of America or the British Empire.
Article 3 Japan, Germany and Italy shall, even after the termination of the war in their victory, co-operate most closely for the purpose of realizing a righteous new order in the meaning of the Tripartite Pact which they concluded on September 27, 1940.
Article 4 The present Agreement shall come into effect the date of its signature and shall remain in force as long as the Tripartite Pact of September 27, 1940, is in force. The High Contracting Parties shall, at an appropriate time before the expiration of the said period of validity, reach an understanding concerning the manner of subsequent co-operation provided in Article 3 of the present Agreement.