GENERAL HEADQUARTERS
SUPREME COMMANDER FOR THE ALLIED POWERS

APO 500
9 June 1949

AG 311.1 (28 May 48) CCS
(SCAPIN-1900/10)

MEMORANDUM FOR	JAPANESE GOVERNMENT.
SUBJECT	International Postal Service

1. Reference is made to the following memoranda for the Japanese Government:
a. File AG 091 (28 Jan 46) GS, SCAPIN 677, dated 29 January 1946, subject: Governmental and Administrative Separation of Certain Outlying Arras from Japan.
b. File AG 311.1 (28 May 48) CCS, SCAPIN 1900, dated 28 May 1948, subject: International Postal Service.
c. File AG 311.1 (9 Jun 49) DS, SCAPIN 2015, dated 9 June 1949, subject: Communications Between Japanese Government and Persons Abroad in Regard to Personal Status.
2. Paragraph 3 of reference 1b above is amended by the addition of sub paragraph "d" as follows:
"d. Messages to and from the Japanese Government or any agency thereof, except as provided in SCAPIN 677, dated 29 January 1946, subject: Governmental and Administrative Separation of Certain Outlying Areas from Japan, and except that messages relating to personal status of persons residing abroad, as defined in SCAPIN 2015, dated 9 June 1949, subject: Communications Between Japanese Government and Persons Abroad in Regard to Personal Status, are mailable to and from Japan."
3. Paragraph 4c of reference 1b above is rescinded and the following substituted therefor:
"c. All papers of legal procedure, except the following, which are mailable to and from Japan:
(1) Commercial papers and documents which relate to applications by Japanese or residents of Japan for the return of their property which has been vested in the Alien Property Custodian of the United States.
(2) Documents and papers of legal procedure which relate to personal status of Japanese Nationals or former Japanese Nationals residing outside Japan (see paragraph 3d above).

FOR THE SUPREME COMMANDER:

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