We, recognizing the urgent necessity of the Ordinance for the Disbursement of the Expenses for the Repatriation of Overseas Government Personnel and Others, hereby give thereto Our sanction with the advice of the Privy Council, in accordance with Paragraph 1 of Article 70 of the Imperial Constitution, and the said Ordinance to be promulgated.
Signed: Hirohito, Seal of the Emperor
This twenty-sixth day of the fourth month of the twenty-first year of Showa (26 April, 1946).
Countersigned: Baron Kijuro Shidehara Prime Minister Minister of First Demobilization Department Minister of Second Demobilization Department
Chuzo Mitsuchi Minister of Home Affairs
Chuzo Iwata Minister of Justice
Shigeru Yoshida Minister of Foreign Affairs
Joji Matsumoto Minister of State
Hitoshi Ashida Minister of Walfare
Viscount Keizo Shibusawa Minister of Finance
Sankuro Ogasawara Minister of Commerce and Industry
Yoshishige Abe Minister of Education
Sempachi Soejima Minister of Agriculture and Forestry
Giichi Murakami Minister of Transportation
Takeshige Ishiguro Minister of State
Wataru Narahashi Minister of State
Imperial Ordinance No. 242