Germany and Italy having decided to wage war in common with Japan against the United States of America, an agreement was signed today (December 11) at Berlin between the Japanese Plenipotentiary, the Ambassador to Germany, Lieutenant General Hiroshi Oshima, the German Plenipotentiary, the Foreign Minister, Mr. Joachim Ribbentrop and the Italian Plenipotentiary, the Ambassador to the Germany, Mr. Dino Alfieri. The contents of the agreement are as follows:
Agreement between Japan, Germany and Italy
In the inflexible determination not to lay down arms until the common war against the United States and the British Empire is successfully concluded, the Imperial Japanese Government, the German Government and the Italian Government have agreed upon the following stipulations.
Article 1. Japan, Germany and Italy shall prosecute the war forced upon them by the United States of America and the British Empire with all forceful means at their command until it ends in their victory.
Article 2. Japan, Germany and Italy pledge that, without complete understanding between themselves, they will not conclude armistice or peace with either the United States of America or the British Empire.
Article 3. Japan, Germany and Italy shall, even after the termination of the war in their victory, cooperate most closely for the purpose of
realizing a righteous new order in the meaning of the Tripartite Pact which they concluded on September 27, 1940.
Article 4. The present Agreement shall come into effect on the date of its signature and shall remain in force as long as the Tripartite Pact of September 27, 1940 is in force. The High Contracting Parties shall, at an appropriate time before the expiration of the said period of validity, reach an understanding concerning the manner of subsequent cooperation provided in Article 3 of the present Agreement.