I hereby give My sanction to the Law for the Total Number of Court Officials for which the concurrence of the Imperial Diet has been obtained and course the same to be promulgated.
Signed:HIROHITO, Seal of the Emperor
This sixteenth day of the fourth month of the twenty-second year of Showa (April 16, 1947)
Countersigned: Prime Minister YOSHIDA Shigeru
Minister of Justice KIMURA Tokutaro