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<Law Era="Showa" Lang="en" LawType="ImperialOrder" Num="511" PromulgateDay="3" PromulgateMonth="11" Year="21">
  <PromulgateBody>
    <PromulgateStatement>I hereby give My Sanction to General Amnesty Ordinance and cause the same to be promulgated.</PromulgateStatement>
    <ImperialSignature>Signed: HIROHITO, Seal of the Emperor</ImperialSignature>
    <ApprovalDate>This third day of the eleventh month of the twenty-first year of Showa (November 3, 1946)</ApprovalDate>
    <Signature>
      <MinisterialTitle>Countersigned: Prime Minister and concurrently</MinisterialTitle>
      <Name>Minister for Foreign Affairs</Name>
    </Signature>
    <Signature>
      <MinisterialTitle>YOSHIDA Shigeru</MinisterialTitle>
      <MinisterialTitle>Minister of State</MinisterialTitle>
      <Name>Baron SHIDEHARA Kijuro</Name>
    </Signature>
    <Signature>
      <MinisterialTitle>Minister of Justice</MinisterialTitle>
      <Name>KIMURA Tokutaro</Name>
    </Signature>
    <Signature>
      <MinisterialTitle>Minister for Home Affairs</MinisterialTitle>
      <Name>OMURA Seiichi</Name>
    </Signature>
    <Signature>
      <MinisterialTitle>Minister of Education</MinisterialTitle>
      <Name>TANAKA Kotaro</Name>
    </Signature>
    <Signature>
      <MinisterialTitle>Minister of Agriculture and Forestry</MinisterialTitle>
      <Name>WADA Hiroo</Name>
    </Signature>
    <Signature>
      <MinisterialTitle>Minister of State</MinisterialTitle>
      <Name>SAITO Takao</Name>
    </Signature>
    <Signature>
      <MinisterialTitle>Minister of Communications</MinisterialTitle>
      <Name>HITOTSUMATSU Sadayoshi</Name>
    </Signature>
    <Signature>
      <MinisterialTitle>Minister of Commerce and Industry</MinisterialTitle>
      <Name>HOSHIJIMA, Niro</Name>
    </Signature>
    <Signature>
      <MinisterialTitle>Minister of Welfare</MinisterialTitle>
      <Name>KAWAI Yoshinari</Name>
    </Signature>
    <Signature>
      <MinisterialTitle>Minister of State</MinisterialTitle>
      <Name>UEHARA Etsujiro</Name>
    </Signature>
    <Signature>
      <MinisterialTitle>Minister of Transportation</MinisterialTitle>
      <Name>HIRATSUKA Tsunejiro</Name>
    </Signature>
    <Signature>
      <MinisterialTitle>Minister of Finance</MinisterialTitle>
      <Name>ISHIBASHI Tanzan</Name>
    </Signature>
    <Signature>
      <MinisterialTitle>Minister of State</MinisterialTitle>
      <Name>KANAMORI Tokujiro</Name>
    </Signature>
    <Signature>
      <MinisterialTitle>Minister of State</MinisterialTitle>
      <Name>ZEN Keinosuke</Name>
    </Signature>
  </PromulgateBody>
  <LawNum>Imperial Ordinance No. 511</LawNum>
  <LawBody>
    <LawTitle>General Amnesty Ordinance</LawTitle>
    <MainProvision>
      <Article Num="1">
        <ArticleTitle>Article 1.</ArticleTitle>
        <Paragraph Num="1">
          <ParagraphNum/>
          <ParagraphSentence>
            <Sentence Function="main" Num="1">Those persons shall be amnestied, who committed, before November 3, 1946 the following offences, but this shall not apply in cases where acts which constitute the following offences are acts against the Allied occupation, particularly those mentioned in the Imperial Ordinance No. 311, 1946, Article 1, items 2 to 8 inclusive or Article 2, paragraph 3;</Sentence>
          </ParagraphSentence>
          <Item Num="1">
            <ItemTitle>1.</ItemTitle>
            <ItemSentence>
              <Sentence>The offences prescribed in Articles 74 and 76 of the Criminal Code;</Sentence>
            </ItemSentence>
          </Item>
          <Item Num="2">
            <ItemTitle>2.</ItemTitle>
            <ItemSentence>
              <Sentence>The offences prescribed in Articles 77 to 79 inclusive of the Criminal Code;</Sentence>
            </ItemSentence>
          </Item>
          <Item Num="3">
            <ItemTitle>3.</ItemTitle>
            <ItemSentence>
              <Sentence>The offences prescribed in Articles 81 to 89 inclusive of the Criminal Code;</Sentence>
            </ItemSentence>
          </Item>
          <Item Num="4">
            <ItemTitle>4.</ItemTitle>
            <ItemSentence>
              <Sentence>The offences prescribed in Articles 105-2 and 105-3 of the Criminal Code;</Sentence>
            </ItemSentence>
          </Item>
          <Item Num="5">
            <ItemTitle>5.</ItemTitle>
            <ItemSentence>
              <Sentence>The offences prescribed in Article 7-4 of the Special Criminal Law in Wartime;</Sentence>
            </ItemSentence>
          </Item>
          <Item Num="6">
            <ItemTitle>6.</ItemTitle>
            <ItemSentence>
              <Sentence>The offences prescribed in Articles 26 to 32 inclusive and Article 34 of the Military Criminal Code;</Sentence>
            </ItemSentence>
          </Item>
          <Item Num="7">
            <ItemTitle>7.</ItemTitle>
            <ItemSentence>
              <Sentence>The offences prescribed in Articles 40 to 53 inclusive and Article 55 of the Military Criminal Code, and attempted but not consummated committal of offences prescribed in Articles 40, 42, 43, 45, 47, 49, 51, 53 and 55 of the said Code;</Sentence>
            </ItemSentence>
          </Item>
          <Item Num="8">
            <ItemTitle>8.</ItemTitle>
            <ItemSentence>
              <Sentence>The offences prescribed in Articles 57 and 59 of the Military Criminal Code;</Sentence>
            </ItemSentence>
          </Item>
          <Item Num="9">
            <ItemTitle>9.</ItemTitle>
            <ItemSentence>
              <Sentence>The offences prescribed in Articles 73 and 74 of the Military Criminal Code;</Sentence>
            </ItemSentence>
          </Item>
          <Item Num="10">
            <ItemTitle>10.</ItemTitle>
            <ItemSentence>
              <Sentence>The offences prescribed in Articles 75 to 78 inclusive of the Military Criminal Code;</Sentence>
            </ItemSentence>
          </Item>
          <Item Num="11">
            <ItemTitle>11.</ItemTitle>
            <ItemSentence>
              <Sentence>The offences prescribed in Articles 90 to 94 inclusive of the Military Criminal Code;</Sentence>
            </ItemSentence>
          </Item>
          <Item Num="12">
            <ItemTitle>12.</ItemTitle>
            <ItemSentence>
              <Sentence>The offences prescribed in Articles 95 to 104 inclusive of the Military Criminal Code;</Sentence>
            </ItemSentence>
          </Item>
          <Item Num="13">
            <ItemTitle>13.</ItemTitle>
            <ItemSentence>
              <Sentence>The offences prescribed in Articles 20 to 27 inclusive and Article 29 of the Naval Criminal Code;</Sentence>
            </ItemSentence>
          </Item>
          <Item Num="14">
            <ItemTitle>14.</ItemTitle>
            <ItemSentence>
              <Sentence>The offences prescribed in Articles 35 to 51 inclusive and Articles 53 of the Naval Criminal Code, and attempted but not consummated committal of offences prescribed in Articles 35 to 37 inclusive, Articles 40 to 42 inclusive, Articles 46, 49, 51 and 53 of the said Code;</Sentence>
            </ItemSentence>
          </Item>
          <Item Num="15">
            <ItemTitle>15.</ItemTitle>
            <ItemSentence>
              <Sentence>The offences prescribed in Articles 55 to 57 inclusive of the Naval Criminal Code;</Sentence>
            </ItemSentence>
          </Item>
          <Item Num="16">
            <ItemTitle>16.</ItemTitle>
            <ItemSentence>
              <Sentence>The offences prescribed in Articles 71 and 72 of the Naval Criminal Code;</Sentence>
            </ItemSentence>
          </Item>
          <Item Num="17">
            <ItemTitle>17.</ItemTitle>
            <ItemSentence>
              <Sentence>The offences prescribed in Articles 73 to 77 inclusive of the Naval Criminal Code;</Sentence>
            </ItemSentence>
          </Item>
          <Item Num="18">
            <ItemTitle>18.</ItemTitle>
            <ItemSentence>
              <Sentence>The offences prescribed in Articles 90 to 94 inclusive of the Naval Criminal Code;</Sentence>
            </ItemSentence>
          </Item>
          <Item Num="19">
            <ItemTitle>19.</ItemTitle>
            <ItemSentence>
              <Sentence>The offences prescribed in Articles 95 to 105 inclusive of the Naval Criminal Code;</Sentence>
            </ItemSentence>
          </Item>
          <Item Num="20">
            <ItemTitle>20.</ItemTitle>
            <ItemSentence>
              <Sentence>The offences against the Peace Preservation Law;</Sentence>
            </ItemSentence>
          </Item>
          <Item Num="21">
            <ItemTitle>21.</ItemTitle>
            <ItemSentence>
              <Sentence>The offences against the Maintainance of mational Defence Law;</Sentence>
            </ItemSentence>
          </Item>
          <Item Num="22">
            <ItemTitle>22.</ItemTitle>
            <ItemSentence>
              <Sentence>The offences against the Protection of Military Secrets Law;</Sentence>
            </ItemSentence>
          </Item>
          <Item Num="23">
            <ItemTitle>23.</ItemTitle>
            <ItemSentence>
              <Sentence>The offences against the Enforcement Regulations of the Protection of Military Secrets Law, the Ministry of War Ordinance No. 43, 1937;</Sentence>
            </ItemSentence>
          </Item>
          <Item Num="24">
            <ItemTitle>24.</ItemTitle>
            <ItemSentence>
              <Sentence>The offences against the Enforcement Regulations of the Protection of Military Secrets Law, the Ministry of the Navy Ordinance No. 28, 1937;</Sentence>
            </ItemSentence>
          </Item>
          <Item Num="25">
            <ItemTitle>25.</ItemTitle>
            <ItemSentence>
              <Sentence>The offences against the Law concerning Protection of Secrets about Materials for Military Use;</Sentence>
            </ItemSentence>
          </Item>
          <Item Num="26">
            <ItemTitle>26.</ItemTitle>
            <ItemSentence>
              <Sentence>The offences against the Enforcement Regulations of the Law concerning Protection of Secrets about materials for Military Use, the Ministries of War and the Navy Ordinance No. 3, 1939;</Sentence>
            </ItemSentence>
          </Item>
          <Item Num="27">
            <ItemTitle>27.</ItemTitle>
            <ItemSentence>
              <Sentence>The offences against Regulations concerning Protection of Secrets about Materials for Military Use of the Ministry of Transportation and Communication, the Ministry of Transportation and Communication Ordinance No. 81, 1944;</Sentence>
            </ItemSentence>
          </Item>
          <Item Num="28">
            <ItemTitle>28.</ItemTitle>
            <ItemSentence>
              <Sentence>The offences against the Cabinet Ordinance No. 13, 1945 concerning Protection of Secrets about Materials for Military Use designated by the Prime Minister;</Sentence>
            </ItemSentence>
          </Item>
          <Item Num="29">
            <ItemTitle>29.</ItemTitle>
            <ItemSentence>
              <Sentence>The offences against the Strategic Zone Law;</Sentence>
            </ItemSentence>
          </Item>
          <Item Num="30">
            <ItemTitle>30.</ItemTitle>
            <ItemSentence>
              <Sentence>The offences against the Law No. 83, 1890;</Sentence>
            </ItemSentence>
          </Item>
          <Item Num="31">
            <ItemTitle>31.</ItemTitle>
            <ItemSentence>
              <Sentence>The offences against the Defended Sea Law;</Sentence>
            </ItemSentence>
          </Item>
          <Item Num="32">
            <ItemTitle>32.</ItemTitle>
            <ItemSentence>
              <Sentence>The offences against the Control of the Borders Law;</Sentence>
            </ItemSentence>
          </Item>
          <Item Num="33">
            <ItemTitle>33.</ItemTitle>
            <ItemSentence>
              <Sentence>The offences against the Enforcement Regulations of the Control of the Borders Law, the Saghalien Government Ordinance No. 82, 1939;</Sentence>
            </ItemSentence>
          </Item>
          <Item Num="34">
            <ItemTitle>34.</ItemTitle>
            <ItemSentence>
              <Sentence>The offences against the Law of Military Control of Port Regions for Military Transportation;</Sentence>
            </ItemSentence>
          </Item>
          <Item Num="35">
            <ItemTitle>35.</ItemTitle>
            <ItemSentence>
              <Sentence>The offences against the Ordinance concerning the Regions of Buildings for defence in Kwantung Province;</Sentence>
            </ItemSentence>
          </Item>
          <Item Num="36">
            <ItemTitle>36.</ItemTitle>
            <ItemSentence>
              <Sentence>The offences against the Imperial Ordinance No. 263. 1906;</Sentence>
            </ItemSentence>
          </Item>
          <Item Num="37">
            <ItemTitle>37.</ItemTitle>
            <ItemSentence>
              <Sentence>The offences against the Peace Police Law;</Sentence>
            </ItemSentence>
          </Item>
          <Item Num="38">
            <ItemTitle>38.</ItemTitle>
            <ItemSentence>
              <Sentence>The offences against the Press Law;</Sentence>
            </ItemSentence>
          </Item>
          <Item Num="39">
            <ItemTitle>39.</ItemTitle>
            <ItemSentence>
              <Sentence>The offences against the Publication Law;</Sentence>
            </ItemSentence>
          </Item>
          <Item Num="40">
            <ItemTitle>40.</ItemTitle>
            <ItemSentence>
              <Sentence>The offences against the Law concerning Temporary Control of Speach, Publication, Meetings, Associations etc.;</Sentence>
            </ItemSentence>
          </Item>
          <Item Num="41">
            <ItemTitle>41.</ItemTitle>
            <ItemSentence>
              <Sentence>The offences against the Law concerning Temporary Contrs of Threatening Documents;</Sentence>
            </ItemSentence>
          </Item>
          <Item Num="42">
            <ItemTitle>42.</ItemTitle>
            <ItemSentence>
              <Sentence>The offences prescribed in Article 32-4 of the Exchange Law;</Sentence>
            </ItemSentence>
          </Item>
          <Item Num="43">
            <ItemTitle>43.</ItemTitle>
            <ItemSentence>
              <Sentence>The offences against the Law concerning Electric Correspondence for Military Use;</Sentence>
            </ItemSentence>
          </Item>
          <Item Num="44">
            <ItemTitle>44.</ItemTitle>
            <ItemSentence>
              <Sentence>The offences against the Defence of Air Law;</Sentence>
            </ItemSentence>
          </Item>
          <Item Num="45">
            <ItemTitle>45.</ItemTitle>
            <ItemSentence>
              <Sentence>The offences against the Religious Associations Law;</Sentence>
            </ItemSentence>
          </Item>
          <Item Num="46">
            <ItemTitle>46.</ItemTitle>
            <ItemSentence>
              <Sentence>The offences against the Law of Election of Members of the House of Representatives, and the offences against Laws and Ordinance which cite with necessary modifications the penal'clauses of the said Law concerning election of members of the assemblies organized in accordance with Laws and Ordinances;</Sentence>
            </ItemSentence>
          </Item>
          <Item Num="47">
            <ItemTitle>47.</ItemTitle>
            <ItemSentence>
              <Sentence>The offences prescribed in Articles 233 to 236 inclusive of the Criminal Law, the Law No. 36, 1880;</Sentence>
            </ItemSentence>
          </Item>
          <Item Num="48">
            <ItemTitle>48.</ItemTitle>
            <ItemSentence>
              <Sentence>The offences prescribed in Article 31-2, Articles 33, 34 and 36 to 40 inclusive, 42 and 43 of the National Mobilization Law, and the offences prescribed in Article 48 of the said Law concerning them;</Sentence>
            </ItemSentence>
          </Item>
          <Item Num="49">
            <ItemTitle>49.</ItemTitle>
            <ItemSentence>
              <Sentence>The offences prescribed in Articles 5 and 6 of the Law No. 92, 1937, and the offences prescribed in Article 7 of the said Law concerning them;</Sentence>
            </ItemSentence>
          </Item>
          <Item Num="50">
            <ItemTitle>50.</ItemTitle>
            <ItemSentence>
              <Sentence>The offences prescribed in Articles 17 to 19 inclusive of the Temporary Adjustment of Funds Law;</Sentence>
            </ItemSentence>
          </Item>
          <Item Num="51">
            <ItemTitle>51.</ItemTitle>
            <ItemSentence>
              <Sentence>The offences against the Adjustment of Dairy-farming Industry Law;</Sentence>
            </ItemSentence>
          </Item>
          <Item Num="52">
            <ItemTitle>52.</ItemTitle>
            <ItemSentence>
              <Sentence>The offences against the Gold Production Law;</Sentence>
            </ItemSentence>
          </Item>
          <Item Num="53">
            <ItemTitle>53.</ItemTitle>
            <ItemSentence>
              <Sentence>The offences against the Law concerning Regulation of Distribution of Coal and Coke;</Sentence>
            </ItemSentence>
          </Item>
          <Item Num="54">
            <ItemTitle>54.</ItemTitle>
            <ItemSentence>
              <Sentence>The offences against the Regulation of Wood Law;</Sentence>
            </ItemSentence>
          </Item>
          <Item Num="55">
            <ItemTitle>55.</ItemTitle>
            <ItemSentence>
              <Sentence>The offences against the National Labour Note-Books Law;</Sentence>
            </ItemSentence>
          </Item>
          <Item Num="56">
            <ItemTitle>56.</ItemTitle>
            <ItemSentence>
              <Sentence>The offences against the Urgent Measures in Wartime Law;</Sentence>
            </ItemSentence>
          </Item>
          <Item Num="57">
            <ItemTitle>57.</ItemTitle>
            <ItemSentence>
              <Sentence>The offences against the Companies for Military Purposes Law;</Sentence>
            </ItemSentence>
          </Item>
          <Item Num="58">
            <ItemTitle>58.</ItemTitle>
            <ItemSentence>
              <Sentence>The offences against the Military Service Law;</Sentence>
            </ItemSentence>
          </Item>
          <Item Num="59">
            <ItemTitle>59.</ItemTitle>
            <ItemSentence>
              <Sentence>The offences against the Enforcement Regulations of the Military Service Law, the Ministry of War Ordinance No. 24, 1927;</Sentence>
            </ItemSentence>
          </Item>
          <Item Num="60">
            <ItemTitle>60.</ItemTitle>
            <ItemSentence>
              <Sentence>The offences against the Army Muster Regulations, the Ministry of War Ordinance No. 25, 1927;</Sentence>
            </ItemSentence>
          </Item>
          <Item Num="61">
            <ItemTitle>61.</ItemTitle>
            <ItemSentence>
              <Sentence>The offences against the Army Muster Regulations, for Defence, the Ministry of War Ordinance No. 53, 1942;</Sentence>
            </ItemSentence>
          </Item>
          <Item Num="62">
            <ItemTitle>62.</ItemTitle>
            <ItemSentence>
              <Sentence>The offences against the Enforcement Regulations of the Military Volunteers Ordinance, the Ministry of War Ordinance No. 16, 1940;</Sentence>
            </ItemSentence>
          </Item>
          <Item Num="63">
            <ItemTitle>63.</ItemTitle>
            <ItemSentence>
              <Sentence>The offences against the Enforcement Regulations of the Military Officers' Public Service Ordinance, the Ministry of War Ordinance No. 28, 1927;</Sentence>
            </ItemSentence>
          </Item>
          <Item Num="64">
            <ItemTitle>64.</ItemTitle>
            <ItemSentence>
              <Sentence>The offences against the Navy Muster Regulations, the Ministry of Navy Ordinance No 23, 1927;</Sentence>
            </ItemSentence>
          </Item>
          <Item Num="65">
            <ItemTitle>65.</ItemTitle>
            <ItemSentence>
              <Sentence>The offences against the Navy Muster Regulations for Defence, the Ministry of Navy Ordinance No. 20, 1944;</Sentence>
            </ItemSentence>
          </Item>
          <Item Num="66">
            <ItemTitle>66.</ItemTitle>
            <ItemSentence>
              <Sentence>The offences against the Enforcement Regulations of the Naval Volunteers Ordinance, the Ministry of Navy Ordinance No. 21, 1927;</Sentence>
            </ItemSentence>
          </Item>
          <Item Num="67">
            <ItemTitle>67.</ItemTitle>
            <ItemSentence>
              <Sentence>The offences against the Enforcement Regulations of the Naval Officers' Public Service Ordinance, the Ministry of Navy Ordinance No. 20, 1927;</Sentence>
            </ItemSentence>
          </Item>
          <Item Num="68">
            <ItemTitle>68.</ItemTitle>
            <ItemSentence>
              <Sentence>The offences against old Laws and Ordinances which are equal in nature to the offences enumerated in every preceding item;</Sentence>
            </ItemSentence>
          </Item>
          <Item Num="69">
            <ItemTitle>69.</ItemTitle>
            <ItemSentence>
              <Sentence>The offences prescribed in the Laws and Ordinances of Korea, Formosa, the Kwantung Province, the South Sea Islands and the other territories outside the Empire, which are equal in nature to the offences specified in every preceding item.</Sentence>
            </ItemSentence>
          </Item>
        </Paragraph>
      </Article>
      <Article Num="2">
        <ArticleTitle>Article 2.</ArticleTitle>
        <Paragraph Num="1">
          <ParagraphNum/>
          <ParagraphSentence>
            <Sentence>General Amnesty will not be granted, in case where an act which constitutes any offence mentioned in the foregoing Article constitutes another offence coincidently, or is a means or a result of an act which constitutes another offence.</Sentence>
          </ParagraphSentence>
        </Paragraph>
      </Article>
    </MainProvision>
    <SupplProvision>
      <SupplProvisionLabel>Supplementary Provision:</SupplProvisionLabel>
      <Paragraph Num="1">
        <ParagraphNum/>
        <ParagraphSentence>
          <Sentence>The present Ordinance shall come into force as from the day of its promulgation.</Sentence>
        </ParagraphSentence>
      </Paragraph>
    </SupplProvision>
  </LawBody>
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