Burma has proclaimed her independence today, August 1, 1943, and has immediately declared war on the United States and Britain.
Japan has given immediate recognition to that country and has had a Treaty of Alliance Between Japan and Burma signed between Mr. Renzo Sawada, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Japan to Burma, and Dr. Ba Maw, Prime Minister of Burma.
The principal points of the treaty are as follows:
Only the introductory paragraphs; the "principal points of the treaty" that follow are in the separate treaty file.
This site gathers the verbatim texts of treaties, laws, speeches and other official documents printed in two English-language periodicals published in wartime Japan: the Tokyo Gazette (1937–1942), a monthly digest of government reports issued under the supervision of the Cabinet Information Bureau, and Contemporary Japan: A Review of Far Eastern Affairs (issues of 1941–1945), published by the Foreign Affairs Association of Japan, whose “Documentary Material” section reprinted official texts.
It also includes the “Texts of Treaties, Agreements, Notes and Statutes of the Powers Concerning Manchuria” (1895–1932) printed as Supplement III of the Japan-Manchoukuo Year Book 1934 (the first of a section of texts from year books), and, from the two periodicals, selected government programmes, reports, statistical articles, chronologies and profiles of public figures.
Only texts printed in full in the journals are included; commentary, summaries and articles about them are not. The issues covered are those indexed on the Tokyo Gazette table of contents and Contemporary Japan pages at Frog in a Well, and scanned on the Internet Archive.
These are official translations and statements of the wartime Japanese state and its allies, and should be read as such.
Transcription. The texts were transcribed from the page scans by AI models (Claude Opus 5.5, Claude Sonnet 5.5 and, for the Japan Year Books, Claude Haiku 5.5; the model used is named at the foot of each text) reading the page images, and have not been proofread by a person. Original spelling and romanisation are kept. Page numbers in the margin link to the page of the scan on the Internet Archive: check the scan before quoting.