The non-aggression pacts were finally concluded with France and Britain on June 12, 1940 at Suan Kulap Palace in Bangkok Tokyo on the same day and at the same time the Japanese-Thai treaty was signed between Hachiro Arita, the Japanese Minister of Foreign Affairs, and Phya Sisena, the Thai Minister in Tokyo
The Japanese-Thai treaty contained 5 comparatively short articles. In Article 1, the contracting parties agreed to mutually respect each other’s territorial integrity and reaffirmed the constant peace and the perpetual friendship existing between them.
Article 2 stipulated that the contracting parties should maintain friendly contacts in order to exchange information, and to consult one another, on any question of common interest that might arise.
In Article 3, in addition to guaranteeing mutual respect for each other’s territorial integrity each contracting party undertook not to assist any third party by which the other might be attacked.
It was through Article 2 that the Japanese obtained something of a more definite nature, which gave cause for concern to the British. Sir Josiah Crosby questioned Direk Jayanama as to whether this could be taken as a pledge of alliance, but the latter replied in the negative.
Accordingly, the Anglo-Thai and Japanese-Thai treaties were ratified on August 31, and December 23, 1940 respectively. But the ratifications of the Franco-Thai non-aggression pact were not exchanged because of the change in political situation in France
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