I hereby give My Sanction to the Imperial Ordinance concerning the partial amendments to be made to the Regulations governing the Organization of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs and others and cause the same to be promulgated.
Signed: HIROHITO, Seal of the Emperor
This twenty-eighth day of the twelfth month of the twenty-first year of Showa (December 28, 1946)
Countersigned: Prime Minister and concurrently Minister for Foreign Affairs YOSHIDA Shigeru
Imperial Ordinance No. 625
Article 1. The following amendments are made to the Regulations governing the Organization of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs.
In Article 9 "full time 108" shall read "full time 109" and "full time 207" shall read "full time 210."
Article 2. The following amendments are made to the Regulation governing the Organization of the Central Liaison Office.
In Article 4 "full time 208" shall read "full time 203," "full time 131" shall read "full time 128," and to the same Article the following shall be added:
Secretary of Ministry for Foreign Affairs or Technical Official of Ministry for Foreign Affairs
In Article 13, next to "Secretary of Ministry for Foreign Affairs" shall be added "or Technical Official of Ministry for Foreign Affairs."
Supplementary Provision:
The present Ordinance shall come into force as from the day of its promulgation.