GENERAL HEADQUARTERS
SUPREME COMMANDER FOR THE ALLIED POWERS

22 November 1945

AG 400 (22 Nov 45) PH
(SCAPIN-333)

MEMORANDUM FOR	IMPERIAL JAPANESE GOVERNMENT.
THROUGH	Central Liaison Office, Tokyo.
SUBJECT	Reserve supplies Held for Relief Distribution.

1. Receipt is acknowledged of your memorandum, file number 372, dated 26 October 1945 on the subject of materials, supplies and equipment to be turned over to the Imperial Japanese Government by the Allied Forces.
2. The Imperial Japanese Government will furnish this headquarters without delay a detailed inventory of all stocks of staple foodstuffs and clothing listed in paragraph 3 (1) and 3 (2) of memorandum number 372, showing their exact location within each prefecture.
3. Prior to the distribution of any of the listed foodstuffs and clothing, and before 15 December 1945 a distribution plan will be submitted by the Imperial Japanese Government to this headquarters for approval. This plan will make provision for:
a. Control of relief distribution to be exercised by a central agency operating through prefectural governments.
b. A social welfare agency in each prefecture staffed by perfonnel selected for their training and skill in the handling of welfare problems, and specifically not for their present or former military or naval status;
c. Eligibility for receipt of relief supplies based only upon individual need determined by family budgetary deficiency:
d. Prevention of the use of supplies in mass feeding or distribution schemes without specific authority from this headquarters;
e. Issuance of relief supplies without cost to the recipient;
f. The maintenance of a record for each family to whom supplies are issued containing necessary identifying data;
g. Distribuiion through normal ration channels by withdrawal authorizations issued by the Social Welfare Agency.
h. Local accounting based upon the individual record (item f.) and individual withdrawal authorizations (item g.)
i. Submission by the central agency to this headquarters of a monthly report in metric weights showing by prefecture.
(1) Amount of supplies by item on hand at beginning of each month.
(2) Supplies added to stock during the month by source.
(3) Supplies withdrawn during the month indicating amount issued free to needy persons and amount withdrawn for other reasons (such as spoilage and transfer)
(4) Amount of each item on hand at end of the month.
(5) Number of families, and persons (dependants) represented in those families, to whom supplies were issued during the month.
(6) Totals of above items for all prefectures.

FOR THE SUPREME COMMANDER:

H.W.ALLEN,
Colonel, A.G.D.,
Asst Adjutant General.