I hereby give My sanction, with advice of the Privy Council, to the Regulations governing the Organization of the Ministry of Communications 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: June 29, 1946 Prime Minister YOSHIDA Shigeru
Imperial Ordinance No. 343
The Regulations governing the Organization of the Ministry of Communications.
Article 1. The Minister of Communications presides over supervises the affairs concerning post. Electrical communications, postal exchange, postal savings, postal life insurance, postal annuity and their collateral affairs as well as those concerning the security of aerial navigation, and controls paying of annuity and pension and receiving and paying the money for the national treasury.
Article 2. In the Ministerial secretariat, besides the affairs prescribed in the General Rules, general affairs relating to inquiries of collateral administration are transacted.
Article 3. The Ministry of Communications consists of the following seven bureaus:
Savings and Insurance Bureau
Article 4. In the General Affairs Bureau the following affairs are transacted:
1. Pertaining to the Liaison and adjustment of administration concerned;
2. Pertaining to the budget and settlement as well as accounting and its inspection;
3. Pertaining to allowances, welfare and training of the employees.
Article 5. In the Postal Affairs Bureau, post and its collateral affairs are transacted.
Article 6. In the Electric Affairs Bureau, the following affairs are transacted:
1. Pertaining to electrical communications and their collateral affairs;
2. Pertaining to International Telecommunication Corporation Ltd.
Article 7. In the Technical Affairs Bureau, the affairs pertaining to the construction and preservation of the electrical communications facilities are transacted.
Article 8. In the Electric Wave Bureau, the following affairs are transacted:
1. Pertaining to electric wave control;
2. Pertaining to electric wave technique;
3. Pertaining to standard electric wave as well as the construction and preservation of the facilities thereof;
4. Pertaining to wireless electrical communications and their collateral affairs except for those concerning public communications;
5. Pertaining to security of aerial navigation.
Article 9. In the savings and Insurance Bureau, the following affairs are transacted:
1. Pertaining to postal exchange, postal savings and their collateral affairs;
2. Pertaining to postal life insurance, postal annuity and their collateral affairs;
3. Pertaining to paying of annuity and pension, and receiving and paying the money for the national treasury.
Article 10. In the Materials Bureau, the affairs pertaining to materials are transacted.
Article 11. In the Ministry of Communications the Building and Repairs Department is established in order to supervise the affairs pertaining to state properties and repairings thereof.
Article 12. The Minister of Communications may establish branch offices where he deems it necessary, and allot them a portion of affairs to be done by the Ministry of Communications.
Article 13. In the Ministry of Communications are employed the following personnel:
Secretaries of Communications Ministry or Technical officials of Communications Ministry:
Full time 7 persons 1st class
Secretaries of Communications Ministry:
Full time 1 person 1st class
,, 9875 persons 3rd class
Technical officials of Communications Ministry:
Full time 5 persons 1st class
Chief of the Building and Repairs Department.
In addition to the above-mentioned personnel, Communications Assistants are employed and treated as 3rd class officials.
Article 14. From among the 1st class technical officials of Communications Ministry is appointed Chief of the Building and Repairs Department, who supervises the departmental affairs according to the order of the Minister of Communications.
Article 15. The Communications assistant, under the instruction of senior official, engages in business or technical affairs.
In addition to the provisions prescribed in Par. 2 of Article 13, and the preceding paragraph, the regulations pertaining to the Communications assistants shall be made by the Minister of Communications.
Supplementary Provisions:
The present Ordinance shall come into force as from the day of its promulgation.
The Regulations governing the Organization of the Board of Communications shall be abrogated.
The official who is in the personnel of the Communications offices attached to the Cabinet, at the time of the promulgation of the present Ordinance, shall be regarded without written appointment, as having been appointed, as for secretary of the Communications Board, secretary of Communications Ministry; as for technical official of Communications Board, technical official of Communications Ministry; as for educational official of Communications Board, educational official of Communications Ministry; as for Communications assistant of Communications Board, communications assistant of Communications Ministry of corresponding grade and salary respectively.
The official who is in the personnel of Communications offices attached to the Cabinet and is on the suspended list at the time of the promulgation of the present Ordinance, shall be regarded, without written appointment, as having been appointed, being on the suspended list, Official of Communications Offices of corresponding grade and salary in accordance with the example in the preceding paragraph.