[en] The application of safeguards in Japan under the Agreement of 28 July 1972 between the Agency, Japan and Australia for the application of safeguards was suspended pursuant to Section 36 on 2 December 1977, the date on which a Safeguards Agreement between Japan and the Agency in the implementation of Article III.1 and 4 of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons entered into force