GENERAL HEADQUARTERS
SUPREME COMMANDER FOR THE ALLIED POWERS

APO 500
6 December 1947

AG 311.3 (6 Dec 47) CCS
(SCAPIN - 1830)

MEMORANDUM FOR	JAPANESE GOVERNMENT.
THROUGH	Central Liaison Office, Tokyo.
SUBJECT	Japanese Overseas Radiotelephone Service.

1. The following Memoranda for the Japanese Government are rescinded:
a. File AG 311.3(8 Jan 46)CCS, (SCAPIN 566), dated 8 January 1946, subject: Establishment of Telephone Service Between the United States and Tokyo.
b. File AG 311.3(1 Aug 46)CCS, (SCAPIN 1096), dated 1 August 1946, subject: Expansion of Telephone Service Between the United States and Tokyo.
c. File AG 311.3(25 Aug 47)CCS, (SCAPIN 1309/2), dated 25 August 1947, subject: Radiotelephone Service Between the United States and Japan.
2. Reference is made to Memoranda for the Japanese Government as follow:
a. File AG 311.3(7 Aug 46) CCS, (SCAPIN 1111), dated 7 August 1946, subject: Use of Radio-Telephone Service From Tokyo to the United States, its Territories and Possessions, for Official United States Government Calls.
b. File AG 311.3(24 Sep 46)CCS (SCAPIN 1228), dated 24 September 1946, subject: Revised Plan for Receiving Payments Due American Carriers for Messages and Radiotelephone Calls Filed by United States Military and Accredited Civilian Personnel for Transmission to or Through the United States, its Territories and Possessions, Prepaid in Japan.
c. File AG 311.3(2 Nov 46)CCS, (SCAPIN 1309), dated 2 November 1946, subject: Radiotelephone Service Between the United States and Japan.
d. File AG 311.3(l Aug 47)CCS, (SCAPIN 1309/l), dated 1 August 1947, subject: Radiotelephone Service Between the United States and Japan.
e. File AG 311(9 Sep 47)CCS, (SCAPIN 1771), dated 9 September 1947, subject: Relaxation of International Telecommunications Restrictions.
3. Paragraph 4 of reference 2d is rescinded and the following will apply in lieu thereof: Any person or organization authorized to possess and use United States Military Payment Certificates or Foreign Trade Payment Certificates may place radiotelephone calls from Japan, prepaid in these currencies, in accordance with the following:
a. To the United States as now authorized.
b. To Hawaii via the United States, effective 8 December 1947
c. To other points beyond the continental limits of the United States, via the United States, effective at a date or dates to be determined and announced later by the Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers.
4. Collect calls to the United States only, from any person or organization in Japan, are authorized effective 5 January 1948.
5. Report Charges:
a. Any person or organization in Japan placing an overseas call, either prepaid, or collect, will be required to pay a report charge for each call cancelled after a chargeable report has been obtained. A chargeable report is a report which indicates that:
(1) The called telephone has been reached but the called person is not available or is unwilling to talk.
(2) The called person is available, but the caller is not available, or is unwilling to talk, or the calling telephone does not answer.
(3) On a call filed for later completion, the called person has been notified to expect the call.
b. Payments collected for report charges will be accounted for separately from payments collected for completed telephone calls, in the following manner:
(1) All such payments for report charges, made by accredited persons or Organizations in United States Military Payment Certificates or Foreign Trade Payment Certificates, and in yen by non-accredited persons or organizations, will be segregated in an account to be reconciled at the end of each settlement period.
(2) On each settlement date the American carrier will be paid its share of revenue from report changes from the payments made in United States Military Payment Certificates or Foreign Trade Payment Certificates.
(3) The Ministry of Communications share of revenue from report charges will consist of payments collected in yen plus the balance of United States Military Payment Certificates and/ or Foreign Trade Payment Certificates changed to yen at the military conversion rate, after the American carrier's share has been deducted.
(4) In the event the report charge payments collected in United States Military Payment Certificates and/or Foreign Trade Payment Certificates are insufficient to meet the American carrier's share of total report charge, revenue the balance due the American carrier will be carried forward from settlement date to settlement date, until such time as the balance of payments in United States dollar currencies versus payments in yen will permit full settlement of the American carrier's share.
(5) In all other respects settlement of accounts will be accomplished as provided for in reference 2b.
(6) Applicable report charges are shown in Inclosure 1.
6. Rates for weekday service between Japan and the United States as presently authorized, and between Japan and Hawaii, are listed in Inclosure 1. Reduced Sunday rates for service between Japan and the United States and between Japan and Hawaii are authorized, effective 8 December 1947, and are also listed in Inclosure 1.
7. Business or personal calls of a limited transactional nature, between Japan and all points with which radiotelephone service is now or may later be authorized, subject to the restrictions contained in reference 2e, are authorized effective at once.
8. Conference calls from Japan to the United States, whereby conversations may be carried on simultaneously with persons at any two or more locations in the United States, are authorized effective 5 January 1948. Additional charges for such service will be as shown in Inclosure 1.
9. All provisions of reference 2a pertaining to official United States Government calls, remain in effect.
10. Routine operating practices, including rules governing placing and acceptance of calls, will be as direct by the Commanding General, Eighth Army.
11. The single side band equipment now in use on the transpacific radiotelephone circuit, will continue to bar used, with such necessary additions, deletions and modifications as may be authorized from time to time. Double side band equipment may be used whenever practicable, in accordance with present practices. Present frequency assignments remain in effect. Future additions or changes in frequency assignments for radiotelephone service will be handled by direct communication with the Ministry of Communications.
12. Direct communication between the Civil Communications Section or the General Accounting Section General Headquarters, Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers and the Ministry of communications, regarding operating and accounting procedures within the scope of this memorandum, is authorized.

FOR THE SUPREME COMMANDER:

R.M. LEVY,
Colonel, AGD,
Adjutant General.

1 Incl
Rates and Division of Revenue