GENERAL HEADQUARTERS
SUPREME COMMANDER FOR THE ALLIED POWERS

APO 500
10 December 1946

AG 000.5 (10 Dec 46) GC
(SCAPIN-1391)

MEMORANDUM FOR	IMPERIAL JAPANESE GOVERNMENT.
THROUGH	Central Liaison Office, Tokyo.
Subject	Suppression of Illegal Entry into Japan.

1. Reference is made to:
a. Memorandum from the Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers, file AG 014.33 (12 Jun 46) GC, (SCAPIN-1015), dated 12 June 1946, subject as above.
b. Memorandum from the Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers, file AG 014.33 (9 Aug 46) GC, (SCAPIN-1116), dated 9 August 1946, subject:
“Suspension of Repatriation Through the Senzaki Reception Center.”
2. The memorandums referred to above are rescinded and the following substituted therefor.
3. Since cholera is still prevalent in Korea, positive steps must be continued to detect and apprehend ships which are illegally transporting persons from Korea to Japan.
4. The Imperial Japanese Government will:
a. Continue in effect measures to detect ships illegally entering Japanese ports.
b. Seize all such ships and where possible sail them together with their crews, passengers and cargo to Sasebo or Maizuru and deliver them to United States military authorities at those ports.
c. Place all Korean illegal immigrants apprehended in Japan in cholera quarantine and otherwise medically process them according to existing memoranda covering entrance of persons into Japan. Upon clearance by quarantine officials, transport them to the Sasebo Reception Center by rail.
d. Outload Korean Illegal immigrants from the Sasebo Reception Center on shipping designated for this purpose.
e. Furnish Japanese police for guards aboard trains and repatriation ships transporting Korean illegal immigrants.
5. Necessary Allied guards to lend the necessary support and prestige to Japanese police guards and coordinate their activities may be secured on request to the local Allied commander.

FOR THE SUPREME COMMANDER:

JOHN B. COOLEY,
Colonel, AGD,
Adjutant General.