I hereby give,with the advice of the Imperial Family Council and that of the Privy Council, My sanction to the Law regarding the abolition of the Imperial House Law and the Supplements to the Imperial House Law, and cause the same to be promulgated.
Signed: HIROHITO, Seal of the Emperor
This first day of the fifth month of the twenty-second year of Showa (May 1, 1947:
Countersigned: Minister of Imperial Household Viscount MATSUDAIRA Yoshitami
Prime Minister and concurrently Minister for Foreign Affairs YOSHIDA Shigeru
Minister of State Baron SHIDEHARA Kijuro
Minister of justice KIMUKA Tokutaro
Minister of State SAITO Takao
Minister of Communications HITOTSUMATSU Sadayoshi
Ministerof State HOSHIJIMA Niro
Ministerof Welfare KAWAI Yoshinari
Ministerfor Home Affairs UEHARA Etsujiro
Ministerof Finance ISHIBASHI Taman
Minister of State KANAMORI Tokujiro
Minister of Transportation MASUDA Kaneshichi
Minister of Commerce and Industry ISHII Mitsujiro
Minister of Education TAKAHASHI Seiichiro
Ministerof Agriculture and Forestry K1MURA Kozaemon
Minister of State TANAKA Man'itsu
Minister of State TAKASE Sotaro