I hereby give My sanction to the Imperial Ordinance fixing the Enforcement Date of the Vessels 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 Transportation MASUDA Kaneshichi
Imperial Ordinance No. 132
The Vessels Public Corporation Law shall come into force as from April 17, 1947.