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 Part of the Imperial Ordinance of the fifteenth year of Showa (1940) shall be amended as follows: In Paragraph 2, "not more than four persons" shall read "not more than five persons." Supplementary Provision: The present Ordinance shall come into force as from the day of its promulgation.