I hereby give My Sanction to the Imperial Ordinance concerning the fixture of date of enforcing the Law of partial amendment to the Temporary Measures Law relative to Costs of Law-suit and Others of the Law No. 12 of 1946, and cause the same to be promulgated. Signed: HIROHITO, Seal of the Emperor This twelfth day of ninth month of the twenty-first year of Showa (September 12, 1946) Countersigned: Prime Minister YOSHIDA Shigeru Minister of Justice KIMURA Tokutaro Imperial Ordinance No. 427 The Law No. 12 of 1946 shall come into force as from September 15, 1946.