GENERAL HEADQUARTERS
SUPREME COMMANDER FOR THE ALLIED POWERS

15 October 1945

AG 370.05 (15 Oct 45) GC
(SCAPIN-142)

MEMORANDUM FOR	THE IMPERIAL JAPANESE GOVERNMENT.
THROUGH	Central Liaison Office, Tokyo.
SUBJECT	Reception Centers in Japan for Processing Repatriates.

1. The instructions contained in the following directives will be superseded by this directive:
a. Memorandum this headquarters AG 370.05 (7 Oct. 45) GC, subject: “Establishment of Landing Point Bureaus for the Receiving of Returning Japanese Repatriates,” dated 7 October 1945.
b. Radio this headquarters ZAX 6225, subject: “Ports to be prepared for Use in Repatriating Japanese Nationals,” dated 30 September 1945, as amended by Radio ZAX 6354, dated 2 October 1945.
2. The Japanese Government will:
a. Establish, organize and operate reception centers at designated ports (see par 3 a) to receive, process, care for and evacuate all Japanese military, naval and civilian repatriates returning to Japan Proper from overseas.
b. Demobilize military and naval personnel returning from overseas at the reception center servicing the port of debarkation.
c. Assemble, process, care for and load non-Japanese nationals to be returned to their homelands. (See par 3a)
d. Exercise control over all reception centers through a single agency of the Japanese Government which will operate the centers and carry out the necessary coordination with other governmental agencies regarding supply, customs, transportation, demobilization, physical inspections and quarantine.
3. a. Reception Centers: Location, character and capacity. Reception centers will be established by the Imperial Japanese Government as indicated below, and only those centers will be used for repatriation purposes:
Ports Incoming Repatriates (Par 2a) Outgoing Repatriates (Par 2c) Capacity Par Day#
Maizuru Yes Yes 2500
Shimonoseki Yes Yes 2500
Sasebo## Yes No 5000
Senzaki Yes Yes 2500
Kagoshima Yes Yes 2500
Kure Yes Yes 5000
Hakata Yes Yes 5000
Uraga Yes No 5000
Yokohama Yes No 5000
Moji Yes Yes 2500
Hakodate* Yes Yes 2500
# Capacity indicated to be applied to incoming and outgoing personnel alike.
## To be used by Allied shipping only.
* To be established when ordered.
b. Facilities:
Adequate facilities will be established at each of the above designated ports to receive, process and evacuate repatriates in the numbers indicated. They will include necessary storage space for food, clothing and medical supplies as well as space for administration, necessary medical examinations, quarantines and quarantine hospitals. Arrangements will be made with the Commanding Generals of Sixth and Eighth United States Armies for assignment of necessary space for these facilities.
c. Quarantine:
Adequate inspection and quarantine stations will be established immediately at each of the above designated ports to control:
(1) The entry into the home islands of persons (military, naval or civilian) with contagious diseases which would endanger the health of the Occupation Forces or the Japanese population.
(2) The departure of non-Japanese nationals with contagious diseases which would endanger the health of the outgoing shipment of non-Japanese nationals or the population, of countries of destination.
d. Supply:
(1) Adequate food and medical supplies will be provided repatriates while in the reception centers.
(2) Vessels leaving designated ports in the home islands will be provided by the reception centers with sufficient stocks of food, medical supplies, clothing and other items required for the ships’ crews and repatriates on the outgoing and return voyages.
e. Transportation:
(1) Each reception center will arrange for the necessary transportation to move incoming repatriates from its area within twenty-four hours after completion of processing.
(2) Each reception center will regulate the flow of non-Japanese repatriates to be returned to their home-lands from Japan in accordance with shipping schedules. These schedules will be established by this headquarters and copies thereof will be furnished the Central Liaison Office, Tokyo. Changes in schedule, ports of destination, estimated time of arrival and loadings will be furnished the same office by this headquarters and copies thereof will be furnished the Central Liaison Office, Tokyo. Changes in schedule, ports of destination, estimated time of arrival and loadings will be furnished the same office by this headquarters as information is received.
f. Currency:
(1) Reception center commanders will permit non-Japanese repatriates returning to foreign countries to take with them yen currency in amounts not to exceed ¥1,000.00 per person.
(2) Reception center commanders will take up against individual receipt yen currency in excess of ¥1,000.00 per individual and all other currencies and such other items as are enumerated in Memorandum, this headquarters, dated 22 September 1945, Subject, “Control over Exports and Imports of Gold, Silver, Securities and Financial Instruments.
4. The establishment, organization and operation of each reception center will be under the supervision of the United States Army Commander who exercises control over the area in which the reception center is located.
5. The Imperial Japanese Government will submit to this headquarters for approval its plan for the organization and proposed operation of each reception center exclusive of Hakodate, indicated in pragraph 3 above, by 31 October 1945.
6. The Imperial Japanese Government will submit the reports as called for by radio, this quarters, ZA 6361, dated 3 October 1945.

FOR THE SUPREME COMMANDER:

/s/ H.W. Allen,
/t/ H.W. ALLEN,
Colonel, A.G.D.,
Asst Adjutant General.