I hereby give My sanction to the Imperial Ordinance concerning the partial amendments to the Regulations governing the Official Organization of Communications Bureaus and cause the same to be promulgated. Signed: HIROHITO, Seal of the Emperor This twenty-sixth day of the fourth month of the twenty-second year of Showa (April 26, 1947) Countersigned: Prime Minister YOSHIDA Shigeru Minister of Communications HITOTSUMATSU Sadayoshi Imperial Ordinance No. 156 The following partial amendments shall be made to the Regulations governing the Official Organization of Communications Bureaus:

Article 3 shall be deleted.

In paragraph 3, Article 4, "or Second Class" shall be inserted next to "First Class." In the column of the Tokyo Communications Bureau in the annexed table, "Niigata Prefecture" and "Nagano Prefecture" shall be deleted, and the following column shall be inserted after the same column: "Nagano Communications Bureau," "Nagano City," "Nagano Prefecture, Niigata Prefecture" "Ishikawa Prefecture" and "Toyama Prefecture" in the column of the Nagoya Communications Bureau in the same table shall be deleted and the following shall be inserted after the said column. "Kanazawa Communications Bureau," "Kanazawa City," "Ishikawa Prefecture, Fukui Prefecture, Toyama Prefecture" Fukui Prefecture" in the column of the Osaka Communications Bureau in the same table shall be deleted. Supplementary Provision: The present Ordinance shall come into force as from May 1, 1947.