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.