The understanding between Japan and Venezuela by which Japan undertook since July 1, 1939, to purchase as much of Venezuelan products as possible and Venezuela agreed not to adopt unreasonably restrictive measures against Japanese goods for reason of unequilibrium of trade between the two countries expired at the end of February of this year. The Japanese Government have conducted, in view of the importance of Venezuela as a market for our exports, negotiations with the Venezuelan Government through our representatives there for the conclusion of a new understanding for similar purpose. As a result, an understanding was reached on March 11, by which the two countries will adjust their trade relations for a year beginning March 11, on the basis of the understanding concluded on July 1, 1939.
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Announcement of the understanding; the text of the understanding itself is not printed. Printed page number not shown on the scan; 427 taken from the index.
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,
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