I hereby give My Sanction to the Imperial Ordinance determining the enforcement date of the Capital Levy Law etc. and cause the same to be promulgated.
Signed: HIROHITO, Seal of the Emperor
This eighteenth day of the eleventh month of the twenty-first year of Showa (November 18, 1946)
Countersigned: Prime Minister YOSHIDA Shigeru
Minister of Finance ISHIBASHI Tanzan
Imperial Ordinance No. 548
The Capital Levy Law shall come into force as from November 20, 1946.
The area exempted from the enforced area of the said Law, in accordance with the provisions of supplementary provisions par. 2 of the Capital Levy Law, shall be as follows:
1. Under jurisdiction of the Nemuro Branch Office of Hokkaido Regional Government: Shumisu-gun, Niichi-gun, Uruppu-gun, Kunishiri-gun, Shana-gun, Etorofu-gun, Yakutori-gun, Shikitan-gun, and Suisho-to, Yuru-to, Shiba-to, Taraku-to, and Akiyuru-to of Hamai-mura of Hanasaki-gun.
2. Ogasawara-jima of Tokyo Metropolis.
3. Under jurisdiction of the Oki Branch Office of Shimane Prefecture: 5 mura (villages) and Takesima.
4. Oshima-gun (except Kuroshima, Takeshima and Iwoshima in Toshima-mura) of Kagoshima Prefecture.