The Director General of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) presents his compliments to the Minister for Foreign Affairs and, in accordance with the provisions of the Convention Establishing the World Intellectual Property Organization, has the honor to notify him that the Government of Japan deposited, on January 20, 1975, its instrument of ratification of the said Convention.
Japan has fulfilled the conditions set forth in Article 14(2) of the Convention by concurrently ratifying the Stockholm Act (1967) of the Paris Convention, with the limitation provided for in Article 20(1)(b)(i) of the said Act to the effect that the ratification shall not apply to Articles 1 to 12, and the Paris Act (1971) of the Berne Convention, as provided for in Article 29bis of that Act.
Pursuant to Article 15(2), the Convention Establishing the World Intellectual Property Organization will enter into force, with respect to Japan, three months after the date of deposit of the instrument of ratification, that is, on April 20, 1975.
January 24, 1975