IN THE CLEAR
GENERAL HEADQUARTERS
SUPREME COMMANDER FOR THE ALLIED POWERS

12 October 1945

AG 370.05 GC-O WTS/nw
(SCAPIN - 125)

OPNL PRIORITY

FROM	SCAP
TO	THE IMPERIAL JAPANESE GOVERNMENT.

REFERENCE MEMORANDUM THIS HEADQUARTERS TO JAPANESE MINISTRIES OF WAR AND NAVY DATED SEVEN OCTOBER REQUIRING ESTABLISHMENT OF RECEPTION CENTERS FOR JAPANESE RETURNING FROM OVERSEAS CMA SATISFACTORY PROGRESS IN THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THESE CENTERS HAS NOT BEEN MADE PD (ZA6845) ONE AGENCY WILL BE DESIGNATED BY THE JAPANESE GOVERNMENT PRIOR TO ONE FIVE OCTOBER TO BE RESPONSIBLE FOR ESTABLISHING CMA ORGANIZING AND OPERATING CENTERS TO RECEIVE CMA PROCESS AND EVACUATE JAPANESE REPATRIATES PD PROVIDED THE MINISTRY OF WAR OR NAVY IS DESIGNATED CMA IT WILL BE WITH THE UNDERSTANDING THAT IT WILL BE SUPERSEDED IN THE NEAR FUTURE BY A CIVILIAN MINISTRY PD CENTERS WILL BE ORGANIZED TO PROVIDE FOR ▲OLON DEMOBILIZATION OF MILITARY AND NAVAL FORCES OMA PROCESSING OF CIVILIANS CMA PHYSICAL INSPECTION AND QUARANTINE PROCEDURES FOR ALL CMA CARE FOR ALL WHILE AT THE CENTERS CMA AND EVACUATION FROM THE CENTERS PD CERTAIN DESIGNATED CENTERS WILL BE REQUIRED TO STAGE AND EMBARK FOREIGN NATIONALS RETURNING TO KOREA CMA CHINA FORMOSA PD NEW PARAGRAPH PD A REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DESIGNATED RESPONSIBLE AGENCY TOGETHER WITH REPRESENTATIVES FROM THE MINISTRY OF WAR CMA NAVY CMA PUBLIC WELFARE CMA HOME AFFAIRES CMA AND TRANSPORTATION WILL MEET WITH REPRESENTATIVE OF THIS HEADQUARTERS IN ROOM FIVE FOUR TWO CMA DAIICHI BUILDING AT ONE FOUR NAUGHT HOURS ONE SIX OCTOBER TO RECEIVE THE DIRECTIVE OF THE SUPREME COMMANDER FOR THE ALLIED POWERS

APPROVED:
/s/W. E. Chambers
/t/W. E. CHAMBERS
Brigadier General, G. S. C.
Acting Asst. Chief of Staff, G-3

OFFICIAL:
B. M. FITCH,
Brigadier General, US Army,
Adjutant General