GENERAL HEADQUARTERS
SUPREME COMMANDER FOR THE ALLIED POWERS

26 January 1946

AG 370.05 (26 Jan 46) GC
(SCAPIN-654)

MEMORANDUM FOR	IMPERIAL JAPANESE GOVERNMENT.
THROUGH	Central Liaison Office, Tokyo.
SUBJECT	Japanese Medical Personnel to be Furnished for Repatriation Shipping.

1. Reference is made to letter from the Imperial Japanese Government, C.L.O. No. 79 (5.2), dated 7 January 1946, subject: "Embarkation of Japanese Doctors in LST’s."
2. Medical personnel aboard Japanese manned Libertys and Landing Ships, Tank repatriating Japanese from China will be furnished by the Chinese authorities from Japanese medical personnel now in China.
3. The Imperial Japanese Government will assign medical personnel for permanent duty aboard Japanese manned repatriation shipping, other than that mentioned in paragraph 2 above, as follows:
a. On ships making voyages of less than four days duration, 2 medical orderlies.
b. On ships making voyages of 4 days or longer durat-on, a doctor and 2 medical orderlies.
4. The Imperial Japanese Government will obtain names and itineraries of shipping requiring Japanese medical personnel from the Shipping Control Administration for Japanese Merchant Shipping.

FOR THE SUPREME COMMANDER:

H.W.ALLEN.
Colonel,AGD.,
Asst Adjutant General.