I hereby give My Sanction, with the advice of the Privy Council, to the Imperial Ordinance concerning the partial amendments made to the General Rules of the Regulations governing the Organization of Ministries and cause the same to be promulgated. Signed: HIROHITO, Seal of the Emperor This twenty-ninth day of the sixth month of the twenty-first year of Showa (June 29, 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 Minister of State KANAMORI Tokujiro Imperial Ordinance No. 342 Part of the General Rules of the Regulations governing the Organizations of Ministries shall be amended as follows: In Article 1, "and transportation" shall read, "transportation and communications". Supplementary provision: The present Ordiance shall come into force as from the day of its promulgation.