Japanese Chamber of Commerce - miscellaneous correspondence and records, minutes of meetings, correspondence with Federal Ministers

Item

Title
Japanese Chamber of Commerce - miscellaneous correspondence and records, minutes of meetings, correspondence with Federal Ministers
Subject
World War, 1939-1945--Australia
Japanese language
Consuls
Business records
Correspondence
Shipping
Category
4. World War II
Author
Japanese Chamber of Commerce
Creator
Collector of Customs, Sydney
Current holder
National Archives of Australia, Sydney
Period of reference 
January 1, 1930 – December 31, 1941
Series number
SP822/45
Item number
1899653
Access rights
Digitised
Rights 
Copyright National Archives of Australia
Country of origin
Australia
Place
Sydney
Language 
Japanese
English
Description from source
The contents of this series are predominantly part of SP822/44 [Iwai and Company miscellaneous correspondence. The files consist of correspondence between Iwai & Company and the Japanese Chamber of Commerce, which acts as the company's Chief Counsellor. Items 1 to 11 were repackaged and entered on RecordSearch, possibly in 1996. Items 12 to 22 were repackaged and entered on RecordSearch in February 2017. Most of the documents for items 12-22 were housed in brown envelopes with Japanese writing on them and a member of staff was able to transcribe these.
Physical format
Records
Correspondence
Postcards
Abstract 
The series contains the following files:

1899636 – [Japanese Chamber of Commerce - outwards correspondence (enemy property records)] [box 4]
1899637 – [Japanese Chamber of Commerce - outwards correspondence (enemy property records)] [box 4]
1899638 – [Japanese Chamber of Commerce - Iwai and Company - outwards correspondence (enemy property records)] [box 4]
1899639 – [Japanese Chamber of Commerce - Iwai and Company - outwards correspondence (enemy property records)] [box 4]
1899640 – [Japanese Chamber of Commerce - Iwai and Company - outwards correspondence (enemy property records)] [box 4]
1899641 – [Japanese Chamber of Commerce - finance records - F Kanematsu Australia Limited (enemy property records)] [box 4]
1899642 – [Japanese Chamber of Commerce - miscellaneous correspondence - leases - insurance policy - accounts and constitution (enemy property records)] [box 4]
1899645 – [Japanese Chamber of Commerce - miscellaneous correspondence - account records - cheque butts - (enemy property records)] [box 4]
1899648 – [Japanese Chamber of Commerce - share transfer certificates (enemy property records)] [box 4]
1899649 – [Japanese Chamber of Commerce - accounts book (enemy property records)] [box 4]
1899651 – [Japanese Chamber of Commerce - letters received from Kobe board of Directors(enemy property records)] [box 4]

9667986 – [Japanese Chamber of Commerce - Iwai and Company - Sydney Branch - Japan - miscellaneous correspondence (enemy property records)] [box 4A]
9667987 – [Japanese Chamber of Commerce - letters from Australian Government Ministers (enemy property records)] [box 4A]
9667988 – [Japanese Chamber of Commerce - Iwai and Company Limited - Sydney Branch - accounts and related correspondence (enemy property records)] [box 4A]
9667989 – [Japanese Chamber of Commerce - miscellaneous correspondence - accounts - inventory - circulars - constitution - lease and envelope containing sets of keys (enemy property records)] [box 4A]
9667990 – [Japanese Chamber of Commerce - Iwai and Company Limited - Melbourne agent - accounts and related correspondence (enemy property records)] [box 4A]
9667991 – [Japanese Chamber of Commerce - Iwai and Compnay Limited - Sydney Branch - Iwahashi correspondence (enemy property records)] [box 4A]
9667992 – [Japanese Chamber of Commerce - Iwai and Company Limited - correspondence - part 1 (enemy property records)] [box 4A]
9667993 – [Japanese Chamber of Commerce - Iwai and Company Limited - Iwahashi correspondence - part 2 (enemy property records)] [box 4A]
9667994 – [Japanese Chamber of Commerce - Iwai and Company Limited - Iwahashi correspondence - part 3 (enemy property records)] [box 4A]
9667995 – [Japanese Chamber of Commerce - miscellaneous correspondence - insurance policy - accounts - inventorys - cheque books (enemy property records)] [box 4A]
9667996 – [Japanese Chamber of Commerce - Iwai and Company - correspondence regarding wool values (enemy property records)] [box 4A]
Related resources 
https://omaa-arts.sydney.edu.au/texts/5249/
https://omaa-arts.sydney.edu.au/texts/5251/