GENERAL HEADQUARTERS
SUPREME COMMANDER FOR THE ALLIED POWERS

23 January 1946

AG 370.05 (23 Jan46) GC
(SCAPIN-647)

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

1. The instructional contained in all previous memoranda this headquarters pertaining to locations and capacities of reception centers are separated by the this derective.
2. Paragraph 3a of memorandum this headquarters, file AG 370.05 (17 Nov 45) GC, dated 17 November 1945, subject as above, is changed to read:
3. a. Reception Centers: Location, character and capacity.
Reception centers will be located as indicated below, and only these centers will be used for repatriation purposes:
Capacity Per Day
Ports Incoming Outgoing
(Par 2b) (Par 2b)
Bppu* 5,000 1,500
Hakata 7,500 5,000
Hakodate 2,500 2,500
Karatsu 2,500 2,500
Kagoshima 3,000 1,500
Kure area ** 8,000 3,000
Maizuru 2,500 2,500
Moji*** 2,500 2,500
Sasebo 5,000 5,000
Senzaki 5,000 5,000
Shimonoseki*** 2,500 2,500
Tanabe 3,000 1,000
Uraga 10,000 1,500
*Repatriates to be transported to Honshu by ferry if rail transportation is not available.
**Includes Kure, Iwakuni, Ninoshima, Otake and Ujina.
***To be used as a staging area (an area to billet and process repatriates moving to and from other reception centers) until such time as port is mine free.

FOR THE SUPREME COMMANDER:

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