DOCUMENTARY MATERIAL
AGREEMENT OF ECONOMIC COLLABORATION AMONG JAPAN, GERMANY AND ITALY
(1) Text of the Agreement, January 20, 1943
The Imperial Government of Japan and The Government of Germany,
In order to assist mutually with total economic strength in the present war for the construction of the new order in Greater East Asia and Europe and to realize after the conclusion of the war in their victory the new order to secure co-existence and co-prosperity of the peoples concerned by a plan of extensive construction in their respective economic spheres, having decided to render still closer the economic co-operation between them,
Have agreed as follows :
Article 1 Japan and Germany shall accelerate and prosecute with all their power the exchange of economic goods and services in all branches between their economic spheres.
They shall mutually assist in the procurement of materials and in the installation of equipment and effect close technical co-operation.
Article 2 Japan and Germany shall effect close financial co-operation to facilitate payment arising from the enforcement of the provisions in the preceding article.
Article 3 Japan and Germany shall maintain close contact to make more effective their co-operation regarding the prosecution of their economic policies.
The Governments of the two countries shall make committees, appointed specially for the purpose, to pay constant attention to the development of economic relations between the two countries.
Article 4 The competent authorities of the two countries shall make agreement concerning necessary details for the enforcement of the present agreement.
Article 5 The present agreement shall come into effect from the day of its signature and shall remain valid for the same duration as the Tripartite Pact between Japan, Germany and Italy of September 27 of the fifteenth year of Showa or September 27, 1940.
(The text of agreement between Japan and Italy is identical with that between Japan and Germany)