I hereby give My Sanction to the Imperial Ordinance concerning the date of enforcement of the partial amendments of Mail Law (Law No. 3 of the 21st year of Showa (1946)) and cause the same to be promulgated. Signed: HIROHITO, Seal of the Emperor This twenty-second day of the seventh month of the twenty-first year of Showa (July 22, 1946). Countersigned: Prime Minister YOSHIDA Shigeru Minister of Communications HITOTSUMATSU Sadayoshi Imperial Ordinance No. 361 Law No. 3 of the twenty-first year of Showa (1946) shall come into force as from the twenty-fifth day of the seventh month of the twenty-first year of Showa (July 25, 1946).