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TREATIES AND OTHER INTERNATIONAL ACTS SERIES 20-329 

TRANSPORTATION 

Aviation Transport Services 

Agreement Between the 

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 

and JAPAN 

Amending the Agreement of 

November 13, 2010, as amended 

Effected by exchange of notes at 

Washington March 23, 2020 

Entered into force March 29, 2020 
 

 

NOTE BY THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE 

Pursuant to Public Law 89—497, approved July 8, 1966 

(80 Stat. 271; 1 U.S.C. 113)— 

“. . .the Treaties and Other International Acts Series issued 

under the authority of the Secretary of State shall be competent 

evidence . . . of the treaties, international agreements other than 

treaties, and proclamations by the President of such treaties and 

international agreements other than treaties, as the case may be, 

therein contained, in all the courts of law and equity and of maritime 

jurisdiction, and in all the tribunals and public offices of the 

United States, and of the several States, without any further proof 

or authentication thereof.” 
DEPARTMENT OP' STATE 

WASHINGTON 

March -23, 2020 

Excellency: 

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of today's date, 

which reads as follows: 

I have the honor to refer·to.the recent consultations on the.Civil 

Air Transport Agreement between Japatf and the Unit~ States of 

America, signed at Tokyo on August 11, 1952, as am~ed , 

(hereinafter referred to as the "1952 Agreement'')~ 1 have further the 

honor to propose, on behalfof the Government of 1apari, that•· 

Section 3 of the Annex lo, the Memorandum of Understanding 

between Japan and ~ United Su,rtes of Atμ~rica, effected by the 

exchange of notes at Yokoh~ on November 13,2010, as amended, 

which was negotiated with a view to ensuring the implementation of 

·the 1952 Agreement and which amendedthe Schedule to the 1952 

Agreeriient, shall be deleted and replaced with the following: 

"Sectioi 3 ·". , .. Access to Tokyo International Airport (Haneda) 

The following shall apply to international air transportation prescribed 

in the Annex that includes Tokyo Intematio~al Airport (Haneda): 

1. The slots available for scheduled c0mbination service by the 

designated airlines of each Party shall be limited to a total of 

seventeen ( 17) pairs of slots during daytime hours between 0600 and 

2255 hours (local time) and one (1) pair of slots during late night and 

early morning hours between 2200 and 0655 hours (local time); extra 

sections shall not be permitted; 

His Excellency 

Sugiyama Shinsuke, . 

Ambassador of Japan to the United States. 

DIPLOMATIC NOTE 
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2. Slots for scheduled combination service shall not be used for 

all-cargo service; and 

3. Airlines of each Party, in the aggregate, may operate no more 

than six hundred (600) one-way charter flights per year." 

If the above proposal is acceptable to the Government of the 

United States of America, I have the honor to propose that this Note 

and Your Excellency's Note in reply shall constitute an agreement 

between the Government of Japan and the Government of the United 

States of America, which shall enter into force on March 29, 2020. 

I avail myself of this opportunity to renew to Your Excellency 

the assurances of my highest consideration. 

I have the further honor to inform you that the Government of the United 

States of America accepts the above proposal of the Government of Japan and to 

confirm that your diplomatic note and this reply note shall constitute an agreement 

between the two governments, which shall enter into force on March 29, 2020. 

Accept, Excellency, the renewed assurances of my highest consideration. 
(Japanese Note) 

Translation 

Washington, March 23, 2020 

Excellency, 

I have the honor to refet to the recent consultations 

on the Civil Air Transport .Agreement between Japan and the 

United States of America, signed at Tokyo on August 11, 

1952, as amended (hereinafter referred to as the "1952 

Agreement"}. I have further the honor to propose, on 

behalf of the Government of Japan, that Section 3 of the 

Annex to the Memorandum of Understanding between Japan and 

the United States of America, effected by the exchange of 

notes at Yokohama on November 13, 2010, as amended, which 

was negotiated with a view to ensuring the irnplement~tion 

of the 1952 Agreement and which amended the Schedule to the 

1952 Agreement, shall be deleted and replaced with the 

following: 

"Section 3 

Access to Tokyo International Airport (Haneda) 

The following shall apply to international air 

transportation prescribed in the Annex that includes Tokyo 

International Airport (Haneda): 

1. The slots available for scheduled combination service 

by the designated airlines of each Party shall be 

limited to a total of seventeen {17) pairs of slots 

during daytime hours between 0600 and 2255 hours (local 

time) and one (1) pair of slots during late night and 

early morning hours between 2200 and 0655 hours (local 

time}; extra sections shall not be permitted; 

2. Slots for scheduled combination service shall not be 

used for all-cargo service; and 

His Excellency 

Mr. Michael R. Pornpeo 

The Secretary of State 

of the United States of America 
3. Airlines of each Party, in the aggregate, may operate 

no more than six hundred (600) one-way charter flights 

per year." 

If the above proposal is acceptable to the Government 

of the United States of America, I have the honor to 

propose that this Note and Your Excellency's Note in reply 

shall constitute an agreement between the Government of 

Japan and the Government of the United States of America, 

which shall enter into force on March 29, 2020. 

I avail myself of this opportunity to renew to Your 

Excellency the assurances of my highest consideration. 

SUGIYAMA Shinsuke 

Ambassador of Japan 

to the United States of America 
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