TREATY OF AMITY, COMMERCE AND NAVIGATION.

　His Majesty the Emperor of Japan and His Majesty the King of the Hellenes, being equally animated by a desire to establish upon a firm and lasting foundation, relations of friendship and commerce between their respective States and subjects, have resolved to conclude a Treaty of Amity, Commerce and Navigation, and have for that purpose named as their respective Plenipotentiaries. that is to say:
  His Majesty the Emperor of Japan, M. MAKINO NOBUAKI, Jushii, Third C1ass of the Imperial Order of the Sacred Treasure, His Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary;
  And His Majesty the King of the Hellenes, M. ATHOS ROMANOS, Knight of the Royal Order of the Saviour, His Majesty's Minister for Foreign Affairs;
  Who, having communicated to each other their respective Full Powers, and found them in good and due form, have agreed upon the following articles:-

ARTICLE 1. 
　There shall be firm and perpetual peace and amity between the Empire of Japan and the Kingdom of Greece, and their respective subjects.

ARTICLE 2. 
　His Majesty the Emperor of Japan may. if He sees fit, accredit a Diplomatic Agent to Greece, and His Majesty the King of the Hellenes, may equally, if He thinks proper. accredit a Diplomatic Agent to Japan: and each of the High Contracting Parties shall have the right to appoint Consuls- General. Consuls, Vice-Consuls and Consular Agents, to reside in all the ports and places within the territories and Possessions of the other Contracting Party, where similar Consular officers of the most favored nation are Permitted to reside: but before any Consul-General, Consul, Vice-Consul, or Consular Agent shall act as such, he shall, in the usual form, be approved and admitted by the Government to which he is sent.

　The Diplomatic and Consular officers of each of the two High Contracting Parties shall, subject to the stipulations of this Treaty, enjoy in the territories and Possessions of the other whatever rights, privileges, exemptions and immunities which are, or shall be, granted there to officers of corresponding rank of the most favored nation.

ARTICLE 3. 
　There shall be between the territories and possessions of the two High Contracting Parties reciprocal freedom of commerce and navigation. The subjects respectively of each of the High　Contracting Parties shall have the right to come freely and securely with their ships and cargoes to all places, ports and rivers, in the territories and possessions of the other, where subjects or citizens of the most favored nation are permitted so to come; they may remain and reside at all the places or Ports where subjects or citizens of the most favored nation are permitted or remain and reside, and they may there hire and occupy houses and warehouses, and may there trade by wholesale or retail in a1l kinds of products, manufactures and merchandise of lawful commerce.

　In all that concerns the acquisition, enjoyment and disposition of property of all kinds, the subjects of one of the High Contracting Parties shall be placed in the territories and possessions of the other, on a footing of equality with the subjects or citizens of the nation most favored.

ARTICLE 4. 
　The High Contracting Parties agree that, in all that concerns residence, travel, commerce and navigation, any privilege, favor or immunity which either Contracting Party has actually granted, or may hereafter grant, to the Government, ships, subjects, or citizens of any other State. shall be extended immediately and unconditionally to the Government, ships, subjects, or citizens of the other Contracting Party, it being their intention that the trade and navigation of each country shall be placed, in all respects. by the other on the footing of the most favored nation.

ARTICLE 5. 
　No other or higher duties shall be imposed on the importation into Japan of any article, the produce or manufacture of Greece, and, reciprocally no other or higher duties shall be imposed on the importation into Greece of any article, the produce or manufacture of Japan, than are or shall be payable on the importation, for the same purpose, of the like article being the produce or manufacture of any other foreign country. 

　Nor shall any other or higher duties or charges be imposed in the territories or possessions of either of the two High Contracting Parties on the exportation of any article to the territories or possessions of the other than such as are or may be payable on the exportation of the like article to any other foreign country. No prohibition shall be imposed on the importation of any article, the produce or manufacture of the Territories or Possessions of either of the High Contracting Parties into the Territories or Possessions of the other, which shall not equally extend to the importation of the like article being the produce or manufacture of any other country.

　Nor shall any prohibition be imposed on the exportation of any article from the Territories or Possessions of either of the High Contracting Parties to the Territories or Possessions of the other, which shall not equally extend to the exportation of the like article to the territories of all other Nations.

ARTICLE 6. 
　In all that relates to transit, warehousing, bounties, facilities and drawbacks, the subjects of each of the High Contracting Parties shall, in the Territories and Possessions of the other, be placed in all respects upon the most favored nation footing.

ARTICLE 7. 
　No other or higher duties or charges on account of tonnage, light or harbor dues, pilotage, quarantine, salvage in case of damages, or any other similar or corresponding duties or charges of whatever nature or under whatever denomination levied in the name or for the profit of Government, public functionaries, private individuals, corporations or establishments of any kind, shall be imposed in any of the ports of Japan on vessels of Greece or in any of the ports of Greece on vessels of Japan, than are or may hereafter be payable in like cases in the same ports on vessels of the most favored nation.

ARTICLE 8 
　The coasting trade of both the High Contracting Parties is excepted from the provisions of the present Treaty. It shall be regulated by the Laws, Ordinances and Regulations of the two countries respectively.

ARTICLE 9. 
　All vessels which, according to Japanese law are to be deemed Japanese vessels, and all vessels which, according to Hellenic law are to be deemed Hellenic vessels, shall, for the purposes of the present Treaty, be deemed Japanese and Hellenic vessels respectively.

ARTICLE 10. 
　Any ship-of-war or merchant vessel of either of the High Contracting Parties which may be compelled by stress of weather, or by reason of any other distress, to take shelter in a port of the other, shall be at liberty to refit therein, to procure all necessary supplies, and to put to sea again, without paying any dues other than such as would be payable by national vessels.

　In case, however, the master of a merchant vessel should be under the necessity of disposing of a part of his cargo in order to defray the expenses, he shall be bound to conform to the regulations and Tariffs of the place to which he may have come. If any ship-of-war or merchant vessel of one of the Contracting Parties Should run aground or be wrecked upon the coasts Of the other, such stranded or wrecked ship or vessel, and all parts thereof, and a1l furnitures
 and appurtenances belonging thereunto, and all goods and merchandise saved therefrom, including those which may have been cast into the sea, or the proceeds thereof, if sold, as well as all papers found on board such stranded or wrecked ship or vessel, shall be given up to the owners or their agents, when c1aimed by them; if such owners or agents are not on the spot, the same shall be delivered to the respective Consuls-General, Consuls, Vice-Consuls or Consular Agents upon being claimed by them within the period fixed by the laws of the country, and such Consular Officers, owners or agents shall pay only the expenses incurred in the preservation of the property, together with the salvage or other expenses which would have been payable in the case of a wreck of a national vessel.

　The goods and merchandise saved from the wreck shall be exempt from a11 the duties of the Customs unless cleared for consumption, in which case they shall pay the ordinary duties.

　When a ship or vessel belonging to the subjects of one of the Contracting Parties is stranded or wrecked in the territories of the other, the respective Consuls-General, Consuls, Vice-Consuls and Consular Agents shall be authorized, in case the owner or master, or other agent of the owner, is not present, to lend their Official aid in order to afford the necessary assistance to the subjects of the respective States. The same rule shall apply in case the owner, master or other agent is present, but requires such assistance to be given.

ARTICLE 11. 
　The subjects and vessels of Greece resorting to Japan, or to the territorial waters thereof, shall, so long as they there remain, be subject to the laws of Japan and to the jurisdiction of Japan; and. in the same manner, the subjects and vessels of Japan resorting to Greece and to the territorial waters of Greece shall be subject to the laws and jurisdiction of Greece.

ARTICLE 12. 
　The subjects of each of the High Contracting Parties shall, in the Territories and Possessions of the other respectively enjoy perfect protection for their Persons and property; they shall have free and open access to the Courts of justice for the prosecution and defence of their rights; and they shall equally with native subjects be at liberty to employ advocates, attorneys or agents to represent them before such Courts of justice.

　They shall also enjoy entire liberty of conscience and subject to the laws, ordinances and regulations for the time being in force, shall enjoy the right of private or public exercise of their worship, and also the right of burying their respective countrymen according to their religious customs, in such suitable and convenient places as may be established and maintained for the purpose.

ARTICLE 13. 
　In regard to billeting; forced or compulsory military service, whether by land or sea; contributions of war; military exactions or forced loans, the subjects of each of the two High Contracting Parties shall in the Territories and Possessions of the other, enjoy the same privileges, immunities and exemptions as the subjects or citizens of the nation most favored in these respects.

ARTICLE 14. 
　The dwellings, warehouses and shops of the subjects of each of the High Contracting Parties in the Territories and Possessions of the other, and all premises appertaining thereto destined for purposes of residence or commerce, shall be respected.

　It shall not be allowable to proceed to make a search of, or a domiciliary visit to such dwellings and premises, or to examine or inspect books, papers or accounts, except under the conditions and with the forms prescribed by the laws, ordinances and regulations for subjects of the country.

ARTICLE 15. 
　The present Treaty shall take effect immediately after the exchange of ratifications, and shall continue in force for the period of twelve years from the date it goes into operation.

　Either or the two High Contracting Parties shall have the right, at any time after eleven years shall have elapsed from the date this Treaty takes effect, to give notice to the other of its intention to terminate the same and at the expiration of twelve months after such notice is given this Treaty shall wholly cease and determine.

ARTICLE 16. 
　The present Treaty shall be signed in duplicate in the Japanese, Greek and English languages and in Case there should be found any discrepancy between the Japanese and Greek texts, it will be decided in conformity with the English text, which is binding upon both Governments.

ARTICLE 17. 
　The present Treaty shall be ratified by the two Contracting Parties, and the ratifications shall be exchanged at Rome as soon as possible.

　In witness whereof the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed this Treaty and hereunto affixed their respective sea1s.

　Done in sextuplicate at Athens this first day of the sixth month of the thirty-second year of Meiji, corresponding to the twentieth day of May of the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine of the Christian Era.

　(L. S.) N. MAKINO.

　(L. S.) A. ROMANOS.