I hereby give My sanction to the Imperial Ordinance concerning the Abrogation of the Japan Red Cross Society Ordinance, and cause the same to be promulgated.
Signed: HIROHITO, Seal of the Emperor
This seventeenth day of the first month of the twenty-second year of Showa (January 17, 1947)
Countersigned: Prime Minister YOSHIDA Shigeru
Minister of Welfare KAWAI Yoshinari
Imperial Ordinance No. 15
The Japan Red Cross Society Ordinance, shall be abrogated.
Supplementary Provision:
The present Ordinance shall come into force as from the day of its promulgation.