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TREATY OF COMMERCE, ESTABLISHMENT AND NAVIGATION BETWEEN THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND AND JAPAN

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and Japan; Animated by the desire to maintain and strengthen the amicable relations existing between their respective countries;

Desiring to facilitate and extend still further their mutual relations of trade and commerce; and

Desiring to provide for the continued enjoyment of fair and equitable treatment by their respective nationals and companies;

Have resolved to conclude a Treaty of Commerce, Establishment and Navigation and have appointed as their Plenipotentiaries for this purpose:

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (hereinafter

referred to as "the United Kingdom "):

The Right Honourable the Earl of Home, K.T., Her Majesty's

Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs;

The Right Honourable Frederick James Erroll, M.P., President of

the Board of Trade;

Japan:

His Excellency Mr. Katsumi Ohno, Ambassador Extraordinary and

Plenipotentiary of Japan in London;

Who, having communicated their respective full powers, found in good and due form, have agreed as follows:

ARTICLE 1

The territories of the Contracting Parties to which the present Treaty applies are:

(a) on the part of the United Kingdom, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and any territory to which the present Treaty has been extended in accordance with the provisions of Article 32; and

(b) on the part of Japan, the territory of Japan.

ARTICLE 2

In the present Treaty-

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(1) the term territory

means, in relation to a Contracting Party, any territory of that Contracting Party to which the present Treaty applies;

(2) the term “ nationals":

(a) means physical persons;

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