Japan-Indo-China Agreement: Announcement by the Board of Information, July 18, 1942
In accordance with the Japan-French Indo-China Economic Agreement of May last year, economic negotiations with regard to arrangement for its enforcement, determining concrete contents of exchange of materials and goods between Japan and French Indo-China for this year, were initiated at Hanoi at the end of last year between the Japanese Ambassador, Kenkichi Yoshizawa, and the Governor-General of French Indo-China, Admiral Jean Decoux.
These representatives of the two countries have since earnestly continued their negotiations with the spirit of mutual co-operation in conformity with changes of economic conditions accompanying the development of the war of greater East Asia, resulting recently in their satisfactory conclusion and the agreement thereon was signed at Saigon on July 18.
By the conclusion of this agreement on enforcement, it has become possible for French Indo-China to supply us as much volume of important materials and goods as possible which are required by our country, and for Japan to supply French Indo-China materials and goods which are necessary for the maintenance of economy of the latter.
It is a matter to be sincerely felicitated that the economic co-operation between Japan and French Indo-China has been further strengthened contributing toward the establishment of the sphere of greater East Asian co-prosperity.