I hereby give My Sanction with the advice of the Privy Council to the Regulations governing the Organization of the Demobilization Board and cause the same to be promulgated. Signed: HIROHITO, Seal of the Emperor This fourteenth day of the sixth month of the twenty-first year of Showa (June 14, 1946) Countersigned: Prime Minister YOSHIDA Shigeru Imperial Ordinance No. 315 The Regulation governing the Organization of the Demobilization Board.

1. The Demob. Board is under the supervision of the Prime Minister and the function is to demobilize Army and Navy, and transact the affairs concerned.

2. The personnel of the Demob. Board are as follows: President Chief of Secretary Director of Bureau Demob. Administrative Official full time 26 First class Demob. Administrative or Technical Official full time 3505 Second class ,, 6087 Third class Besides the regular members above mentioned, the Prime Minister may employ Demob. Administrative or Technical Officials, within the limit of the Budget, to fill the crew of ships used for repatriation and mine-sweeping.

3. In the Demob. Board, the Secretariate and the following two Bureaus shall be established: First Demob. Bureau Second Demob. Bureau The allotment of functions to the Secretariate and the Bureaus shall be settled by the President.

4. The Minister of State shall be appointed President of the Demob. Board. The President shall supervise the duties of the Board, superintend the personnel and execute, exclusively, the appointment and dismissal of the officials of three classes.

5. In the Secretariate, the Chief shall be appointed from among Demob. Officials of First class. The Chief of the Secretariate shall assist the President and supervise the work of the Secretariate.

6. In each Bureau, the Director shall be appointed from among Demob. Officials of First class. The Director of the Bureau shall, under command of the President, shall carry out the duties of each Bureau.

7. The Demob. Administrative Official shall manage the affairs, under command of the senior official.

8. The Demob. Technical Official shall take charge of technical matters under command of the senior official.

9. The Prime Minister may establish, as settled, Demob. Liaison Bureau, Home Affairs Bureau, Demob. Communication Bureau, Bureau for arrangement of Remaining Business and Local Demob. Bureau, in necessary places, and allot the work of the Board to them.

Supplementary Provisions: The present Ordinance shall come into force as from the day of its promulgation. Of those who hold posts in the First or Second Demob. Office (except those attached to the Local Assistance Bureau or the Local Demob. Personal Bureau) First or Second Demob. Administrative Officials shall be regarded, without any order, as appointed Demob. Administrative Officials of the same class and First and Second Demob. Technical Officials as appointed Demob. Technical Officials of the same class respectively. When the present Ordinance come into force, those who hold posts in the First or Second Demob. Office and are attached to the Local Assistance Bureau or the Local Demob. Personal Bureau as the First or Second Administrative Officials, shall be regarded, without any order, as appointed Local Demob. Administrative Officials of the same class. As to the suspended personnel of the 1st and 2nd Demob. Office when the present Ordinance is promulgated, those who were attached to other offices than the Local Assistance Bureau or Local Demob. Personal Bureau, at the time when they were suspended from office, and those who were attached to the Local Assistance Bureau or Local Demob. Personal Bureau, are regarded unless otherwise ordered, as appointed to Demob. Administrative (or Technical) Officials Local Administrative Officials in suspended status, after the preceding two paragraphs.