We hereby give Our sanction to the amendment of the Imperial Ordinances for the System creating Temporary Posts of Special Naval Corps Personnel, and others and cause the said amendment to be promulgated.
Signed: Hirohito, Seal of the Emperor
This third day of the fifth-month of the twenty-first year of Showa (3 May, 1946)
Countersigned: Baron Kijuro Shidehara Prime Minister Minister of Second Demobilization Department
Imperial Ordinance No. 260
The term "Greater East Asia War" shall be altered to "Present war" in the following Imperial Ordinances:
The System Creating Temporary Posts of Special Naval Corps Personnel:
The Exceptions of the Navy Wartime Pay Regulations in connection with the Greater East Asia War and of others.
Supplementary Provision:
The present Ordinance shall come into force as from the day of its promulgation.