I hereby give My Sanction to the Imperial Ordinance fixing the day of enforcement of the Industrial Reconstruction Corporation Law and cause the same to be promulgated.
Signed: HIROHITO, Seal of the Emperor
This eighth day of the eleventh month of the twenty-first year of Showa (November 8, 1946)
Countersigned: Prime Minister YOSHIDA Shigeru
Minister of Justice KIMURA Tokutaro
Minister for Home Affairs OMURA Seiichi
Minister of Commerce and Industry HOSHIJIMA Niro
Minister of Transportation HIRATSUKA Tsunejiro
Minister of Finance ISHIBASHI Tanzan
Imperial Ordinance No. 534
The Industrial Reconstruction Corporation Law shall come into force as from November 10, 1946 except the provisions of Articles 30 and 31.