I hereby give My sanction to the Imperial Ordinance fixing the Enforcement Date of the Foreign Trade Public Corporation Law, and cause the same to be promulgated. Signed: HIROHITO, Seal of the Emperor This fourteenth day of the fourth month of the twenty-second year of Showa (April 14, 1947) Countersigned: Prime Minister YOSHIDA Shigeru Minister of Commerce and Industry ISHII Mitsujiro Imperial Ordinance No. 131 The Foreign Trade Public Corporation Law shall come into force as from April 17, 1947.