I hereby give My sanction to the Imperial Ordinance regarding the partial amendment to the Imperial Ordinance No. 102, 1946, and cause the same to be promulgated. Signed: HIROHITO, Seal of the Emperor This fourth day of the second month of the twenty-second year of Showa (February 4, 1947) Countersigned: Prime Minister YOSHIDA Shigeru Minister of Education TAKAHASHI Seiichiro Imperial Ordinance No. 43 Part of the Imperial Ordinance No. 102 of the twenty-first year of Showa (1946) shall be amended as follows: In item 2, paragraph 3 of the Supplementary Provision to the Imperial Ordinance No. 102, 1946, the following terms shall be inserted next to the terms "In case of the girls' vocational school": "the four year school to which the required qualification for entrance is the attainment as achieved by completing the Lower Course of the Elementary School." Supplementary Provision: The present Ordinance shall come into force as from the day of its promulgation.