1. Both the Japanese and the Soviet forces shall cease hostilities at noon of August 11th, Soviet Maritime Province time.
2. Both the Japanese and the Soviet forces shall maintain their respective lines held by them at midnight, August 10th, Soviet Maritime Province time. As regards the method of carrying out the terms of the agreement, it was decided that it be determined by negotiations between representatives of the two forces on the front.
Embedded in a narrative article by the Bureau of Information, Department of Foreign Affairs; introduced (p. 27) as "an agreement was reached after the third meeting of Ambassador Shigemitsu and Commissar Litvinov on August 10th. The terms of the agreement are as follows:". Terms as given by the journal, not a signed instrument. The last sentence of item 2 ("As regards the method...") is printed inside the indented item and may be the article's narrative rather than a term.
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.