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The Japanese Embassy has the honour to inform the Federal Department of Justice and Police that, with a view to facilitating travel between Japan and Switzerland, the Government of Japan is prepared to conclude with the Swiss Government the following Arrangement:

(1) Japanese nationals holding a valid national passport may enter Switzerland without a visa.

However, Japanese nationals who wish to enter Switzerland for the purpose of taking up employment there must, before entering Switzerland, obtain from the competent Swiss authorities, either through their future employer or through a Swiss consular representative, an assurance that they will be granted a residence permit.

(2) Swiss nationals holding a valid national passport may enter Japan without a visa, provided that they do not wish to remain there for more than six months. Holders of Swiss diplomatic passports, service passports or special passports may also enter Japan without a visa even if the period of sojourn is to exceed six months. However, Swiss nationals who wish to proceed to Japan in order to give concerts and theatrical or recreational performances, or to take part in sports competitions or other exhibitions, for purposes of gain, are required to obtain in advance a Japanese consular visa, even if their sojourn is not to exceed six months.

(3) The abolition of the visa provided for in this Arrangement shall not exempt Japanese and Swiss nationals from conforming with Swiss or Japanese laws and regulations applicable to the entry, exit, and sojourn of aliens and the exercise by them of a gainful activity.

(4) The competent authorities in each of the two countries reserve the right to refuse admission to or sojourn in their country to nationals of the other country whom they deem to be undesirable.

(5) This Arrangement shall apply mutatis mutandis to Japanese nationals proceeding to the Principality of Liechtenstein and to nationals of Liechtenstein proceeding to Japan.