AGREEMENT ON CULTURAL CO-OPERATION BETWEEN JAPAN AND ITALY, MARCH 23, 1939
The Japanese Government and Italian Government,
Equally animated by a desire to deepen the mutual understanding of both countries and to strengthen more and more the bonds of friendship and mutual confidence so happily connecting them already, by mutually respecting their intrinsic cultures based on their time-honoured traditions and by promoting their manifold cultural relations,
Have agreed upon the following Articles:
Article I The High Contracting States shall strive to put their cultural relations on a firm foundation and shall most closely collaborate in these regards.
Article II In order to attain the aim set forth in the preceding Article, the High Contracting States shall ever promote their cultural relations through the instrumentality of science and art, music and literature, stage and screen, photography and radio, youth-movements and sports, etc.
Article III The competent authorities of the High Contracting States shall decide by mutual agreement the detailed measures necessary for the execution of the stipulations of the preceding Article.
Article IV The present Agreement shall enter into force on the day of its signature. It shall expire twelve months after one of the High Contracting States shall have denounced it.