Japan—Licensees—Foreign—Early and General Correspondence,, 1948-1951

Original document order kept.

· Japan is interested in receiving cultures of Streptomycin, but is hesitant to enter into a deal with royalty payments. Wants to receive help for humanitarian reasons and does not want to have to pay royalties because of the bad state of the Japanese economy and the ill health of its citizens after WWII.

· Correspondence with American occupation authorities.

· Chiba Medical College and Fujita Pharmaceutical Company, Ltd. request assistance in identifying cultures they have.

· Cabinet Order No. 309/49—Post-war dispositions of industrial property rights owned by allied nationals. (This is the order that needs to be followed to get a patent for streptomycin/dihydrostreptomycin in Japan.)

· University of Tokyo, the manufacturers of Streptomycin in Japan, are asked to sign a license agreement because the Foundation needs money for the Institute of Microbiology (to show that the money is being used for "humanitarian" reasons). They reply that they are not manufacturing anything and ask for money for the Japan Antibiotics Research Association.