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 Partial amendment shall be made to the Imperial Ordinance No. 543 of 1945 in the following way: In Paragraph 2, "and detention" shall read, ",detention and a penalty not exceeding 5,000 yen". Supplementary Provision: The present Ordinance shall come into force as from the day of its promulgation.