GENERAL HEADQUARTERS
SUPREME COMMANDER FOR THE ALLIED POWERS

APO 500
18 February 1946

AG 370.05 (18 Feb 46) GC
(SCAPIN - 752)

MEMORANDUM FOR	IMPERIAL JAPANESE GOVERNMENT.
THROUGH	Central Liaison Office, Tokyo.
SUBJECT	Unsatisfactory Conditions Aboard Repatriation Vessels.

1. Reference is made to memorandum this headquarters, file AG 370.05 (17 Nov 45) GC, dated 17 November 1945, subject: "Reception Centers in Japan for Processing Repatriates."
2. Undesirable conditions aboard Japanese repatriation vessel CHOUN MARU during voyage from Uraga to Kiirun and return, 17 December 1945 to 21 January 1946, are cited as follows:
a. Fire Fighting equipment inadequate and unsatisfactory.
b. Food for repatriates unsatisfactory.
c. Insufficient number of life rafts.
d. Sanitation unsatisfactory.
e. Water supply questionable.
f. Quarters of escort guard barely satisfactory.
3. The Imperial Japanese Government will take immediate steps to correct the deficiencies noted aboard the CHOUN MARU and insure that similar unsatisfactory conditions do not exist in the future on this or any other ship.

FOR THE SUPREME COMMANDER:

B. M. FITCH
Brigadier General, AGD
Adjutant General