I hereby give My Sanction, with the advisee of the Privy Council and through the resolution of the House of Peers, to the Imperial Ordinance concerning the partial amendment of the Imperial Ordinance No. 351 of 1946, retating to the prolongation of the term of office of the members under Art. 1, items 3, 5 and 6 of the Regulations of the House of Peers, and cause the same to be promulgated.
Signed: HIROHITO, Seal of the Emperor
This twentieth day of the twelfth month of the twenty-first year of Showa (December 20, 1946)
Countersigned: Prime Minister and concurrently Minister for Foreign Affairs
YOSHIDA Shigeru Minister of State Baron SHIDEHARA 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 Yoshinari
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. 612