Japanese Foreign Minister Matsuoka's trip to Berlin via Moscow (1941.03)

The arrival of Japanese Foreign Minister Matsuoka's train in Moscow on March 23, 1941. Matsuoka exits the carriage and greets Japanese diplomat and Deputy People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs S.A. Lozovsky.

Matsuoka greets the diplomats on the platform.

Matsuoka, Lozovsky, and their entourage walk along the platform.

Matsuoka gets into a car.

The motorcade leaves the station building.

National flags of Nazi Germany and Japan at the Malkin border station on March 25, 1941. The train arrives at Malkin station at night.

A route sign on the wall of a train carriage.

Matsuoka and representatives of the German Foreign Ministry who met him walk along the platform.

A military brass band plays.

Matsuoka during a conversation with a German diplomat during a stop at Malkin station.

Matsuoka and his entourage walk back to the carriage.