I hereby give My Sanction, with the advice of the Privy Council, to the Imperial Ordinance concerning the partial amendment to the Ordinance No. 843 of the fifteenth year of Showa (1940) relating to the persons who are to be ranked in the members of the Cabinet as Ministers of State in accordance with the provisions of Article 10 of the Government organization of the Cabinet and cause the same to be promulgated.
Signed: HIROHITO, Seal of the Emperor
This eighteenth day of the sixth month of the twenty-first year of Showa (June 18, 1946)
Countersigned: Prime Minister and concurrently Minister of Foreign Affairs YOSHIDA Shigeru
Minister of State Baron SHIDEHARA Kijuro
Minister of Justice KIMURA Tokutaro
Minister of Home Affairs OMURA Seiichi
Minister of Education TANAKA Kotaro
Minister of Agriculture and Forestry WADA Hiroo
Minister of State SAITO Takao
Minister of State HITOTSUMATSU Sadayoshi
Minister of Commerce and Industry HOSHIJIMA Niro
Minister of Welfare KAWAI Yoshinari
Minister of State UEHARA Etsujiro
Minister of Transportation HIRATSUKA Tsunejiro
Minister of Finance ISHIBASHI Tanzan
Imperial Ordinance No. 326