I hereby give My Sanction to the Imperial Ordinance concerning the partial amendment to the Imperial Ordinance No. 543 of 1945 (with reference to the Imperial Ordinance No. 542 of the same year relative to the enforcement of Ordinances in connection with the Orders to be issued in consequence of the acceptance of the Potsdam Declaration), and cause the same to be promulgated.
Signed: HIROHITO, Seal of the Emperor
This seventeenth day of the ninth month of the twenty-first year of Showa (September 17, 1946)
Countersigned: Prime Minister and concurrently Minister for Foreign Affairs YOSHIDA Shigeru
Minister of State Baron SHIDAHARA 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 Yoshishige
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. 433