GENERAL HEADQUARTERS
SUPREME COMMANDER FOR THE ALLIED POWERS

21 December 1945

AG 370.05 (21 Dec 45) GC
(SCAPIN-472)

MEMORANDUM FOR	IMPERIAL JAPANESE GOVERNMENT.
THROUGH	Central Liaison Office, Tokyo.
SUBJECT	Return of Natives of Mariana, Marshall and Caroline Islands.

1. This headquarters is contemplating arrangements whereby natives of the Mariana, Marshall and Caroline Islands now in Japan and so desirous may be returned to their home lands. Such arrangements for the time being are restricted exclusively to natives and do not authorize entrance into these mandates of any foreign nationals including Japanese, Okinawans and Koreans.
2. It. is desired that the Imperial Japanese Government furnish this headquarters by 28 December 1945 number by prefecture of total number of natives of Mariana, Marshall and Caroline Islands, now residents of Japan who desire repatriation, indicating the number to be returned to each island in the three above mentioned mandates.

FOR THE SUPREME COMMANDER:

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