(Translation)

AIDE MEMOIRS
With reference to the proposal of the Government of the Republic of Korea to resume the Japan -Korea Overall Talks, without any condition on the part of the Korean side, at the earliest possible date, which was made through Ambassador Tai Ha Yiu of the Korean Mission in Japan in his conversation with Minister for Foreign Affairs Aiichiro Fujiyama on July 30, 1959, the Minister for Foreign Affairs wishes to reply as follows:
The Government of Japan welcomes this proposal made by the Government of the Republic of Korea from a broad viewpoint of the relations between Japan and the Republic of Korea, and, duly taking note of the above-mentioned representation by the Korean side, agrees to the unconditional resumption of the Japan -Korea Overall Talks at an earliest possible date, from its unchanging sincere desire to normalize the relations between the two countries as promptly as possible.
With regard to the mutual repatriation of the Japanese fishermen kept at Pusan and the Koreans kept at Omura as formally proposed to the Minister for Foreign Affairs by Ambassador Yiu during the above-mentioned conversation, the Government of Japan desires that it will be carried out without any hitch before the resumption of the Japan -Korea Overall Talks.

Tokyo, August 1, 1959.