Following the conversations between General Hidéki Tohjo, Prime Minister of Japan, and Field Marshal P. Phibul Songgram, Prime Minister of Thailand, on July 4 of this year, the Governments of the two countries have been engaged in negotiations for the conclusion of a treaty between Japan and Thailand concerning the territories of Thailand in the Malay and Shan regions. Having reached an agreement on the draft treaty, the treaty was signed today, August 20, 1943, at Bangkok between Mr. Teiji Tsubokami, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Japan to Thailand, and Field Marshal P. Phibul Songgram, Prime Minister and acting Minister of Foreign Affairs:---
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Introductory paragraph only; the treaty articles 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.
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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.
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