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  Speaker 1: Appendix three of an Outline History of Japan. This is
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  Speaker 1: An Outline History of Japan by Herbert Henry Gowan, Appendix
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  Speaker 1: number three. Anglo Japanese Treaty of January thirtieth, nineteen o two.
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  Speaker 1: Article one. The High Contracting Parties, having mutually recognized the
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  Speaker 1: independence of China and Korea, declare themselves to be entirely
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  Speaker 1: uninfluenced by any aggressive tendencies in either country, having in view, however,
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  Speaker 1: their special interests, of which those of Great Britain relate
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  Speaker 1: principally to China, while Japan, in addition to the interests
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  Speaker 1: which she possesses in China, is interested in a peculiar
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  Speaker 1: degree politically, as well as commercially and industrially in Korea.
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  Speaker 1: The High Contracting Parties recognize that it will be admissible
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  Speaker 1: for either of them to take such measures as may
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  Speaker 1: be indispensable in order to safeguard those interests if threatened
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  Speaker 1: either by the aggressive action of any other power or
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  Speaker 1: by disturbances arising in China or Korea. And necessitating the
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  Speaker 1: intervention of either of the high contracting parties for the
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  Speaker 1: protection of the lives and property of its subjects. Article two.
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  Speaker 1: If either Great Britain or Japan, in the defense of
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  Speaker 1: their respective interests as above described, should become involved in
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  Speaker 1: war with another power, the other high contracting party will
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  Speaker 1: maintain a strict neutrality and use its efforts to prevent
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  Speaker 1: others from joining in hostilities against its ally. Article three.
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  Speaker 1: If in the above event, any other power or powers
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  Speaker 1: should join in hostilities against the ally, the other high
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  Speaker 1: contracting party will come to its assistance and will conduct
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  Speaker 1: the war in common and make peace in mutual agreement
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  Speaker 1: with it. Article four. The high contracting parties agree that
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  Speaker 1: neither of them will, without consulting the other, enter into
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  Speaker 1: separate arrangements with another power to the prejudice of the
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  Speaker 1: interests above described. Article five. Whenever, in the opinion of
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  Speaker 1: either Great Britain or Japan, the above mentioned interests are
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  Speaker 1: in jeopardy, the two governments will communicate with one another
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  Speaker 1: fully and frankly. Article six. The present Agreement shall come
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  Speaker 1: into effect immediately after the date of its signature and
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  Speaker 1: remain in force for five years from that date. In
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  Speaker 1: case neither of the high contracting parties should have notified
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  Speaker 1: twelve months before the expiration of the said five years
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  Speaker 1: the intention of terminating it, it shall remain binding until
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  Speaker 1: the expiration of one year from the day on which
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  Speaker 1: either of the high contracting parties shall have denounced it.
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  Speaker 1: But if, when the date fixed one where its expiration arrives,
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  Speaker 1: either ally is actually engaged in war, the alliance shall
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  Speaker 1: ipso facto continue until peace is concluded. End of Section
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