Grand Mission to Thailand for Felicitation on the Japan-Thai Alliance: Announcement of the Board of Information, June 20, 1942
Recently, the Government of Thailand sent to Japan a Special Mission headed by the former Prime Minister, Lieutenant-General Phya Phahon Phonphayuha Sena, and including the Minister of Justice, H. E. Captain T. Thamrong, R. N., and the Minister-without-Portfolio, H. E. Nai Vanich Pananda and others, and tendered the expression of felicitation on the conclusion of the Japan-Thai Alliance Treaty. In order to return this courtesy on the part of the Thai Government, the Japanese Government have decided to send to Thailand a Grand Mission for Felicitation on the Japan-Thai Alliance headed by the Envoy, Mr. Koki Hirota, former Prime Minister, who holds Junior Second Grade of Court Rank and First Class Order of Merit, and composed of the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Mr. Yasukichi Yatabé, and others. It is the confident expectation of the Japanese Government that the dispatch of the said Envoy will serve to strengthen further the bond of alliance and to contribute toward the promotion of the traditional friendly relations, which have subsisted for a long time between Japan and Thailand.