I hereby give My sanction to the Imperial Ordinance concerning the Abrogation of the Regulations concerning the Establishment of the Regional Administrative Bureaux and others and cause the same to be promulgated.
Signed: HIROHITO, Seal of the Emperor
This thirtieth day of the fourth month of the twenty-second year of Showa (April 30, 1947)
Countersigned: Prime Minister YOSHIDA Shigeru
Minister for Home Affairs UEHARA Etsujiro
Imperial Ordinance No. 179
The Regulations concerning the Establishment of Regional Administrative Bureaux and Imperial Ordinance No. 624 of 1945 (relating to Coordination Liaison and Adjustment of the Administration in Sakhalin and Hokkaido) shall be abrogated.
Supplementary Provision:
The present Ordinance shall come into force as from the day of its promulgation.