I hereby give My Sanction to the partial amendments of the Regulation governing the Organization of the P.O.W. Information 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. 316
Part of the Regulation governing the Organization of the P.O.W. Information Board shall be amended as follows:
In Article 1 and Article 4 "Minister of the 1st Demobilization Ministry" shall read "the Prime Minister."
Article 3. The personnel of the P.O.W. Information Board shall be as follows:
Demobilization Officials
1st class official in full service 1
2nd class officials in full service 21
3rd class officials in full service 52
The post of Director shall be filled by an demobilization official of 1st class.
Article 6 and Article 7 shall be deleted.
Supplementary Provision:
This Ordinance shall come into force as from the day of its promulgation.