I hereby give My Sanction, with the advice of the Privy Council, to the partial amendments made to the Imperial Ordinance relating to the person who is to be ranked in the members of the Cabinet as Minister of State in accordance with the provisions of Article 10 in regard to the Regulations governing the organization of the Cabinet of the Ordinance No. 843 of the fifteenth year of Showa (1940) and cause the same to be promulgated. Signed: HIROHITO, Seal of the Emperor This Tenth day of the eighth month of the twenty-first year of Showa (August 10, 1946) Countersigned: Prime Minister and concurrently Minister for Foreign Affairs YOSHIDA Shigeru Minister of State Baron SHIDEHARA Kijuro Minister of Justice KIMURA Tokutaro Minister for Home Affairs OMURA Seiichi Minister of Education TANAKA Kotaro Minister of Agriculture and Forestry WADA Hiroo Minister of State SAITO Takao Minister of Communications 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 Minister of State ZEN Keinosuke Imperial Ordinance No. 377 Part of the Imperial Ordinance of the fifteenth year of Showa (1940) shall be amended as follows: In Paragraph 2 "not more than five persons" shall read "not more than six persons". Supplementary Provision: The present Ordinance shall come into force as from the day of its promulgation.