GENERAL HEADQUARTERS
SUPREME COMMANDER FOR THE ALLIED POWERS

APO 500
19 April 1946

AG 386.3 (19 Apr 46) CPC
(SCAPIN-885)

MEMORANDUM FOR	IMPERIAL JAPANESE GOVERNMENT.
THROUGH	Central Liaison Office, Tokyo.
SUBJECT	Impounding and Reporting of Looted Property.

1. The Imperial Japanese Government is directed to seek out, inventory, and impound immediately, all identifiable looted property which is now in Japan and which has been the subject of transfer under duress, wrongful acts of confiscation, dispossession or spoliation, whether pursuant to legislation or by procedure purporting to follow forms of law or otherwise, in areas occupied by the Japanese Armed Forces since 7 July 1937.
2. The completed inventory will be submitted to General Headquarters, Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers, by 1 June 1946, and will be complied by territories or localities from which the property was taken, and will include:
a. Complete description of property.
b. Quantity.
c. Name of owner at time of seizure.
d. Disposition of property upon arrival in Japan.
e. Present title holder and address.
f. Present location of Property.
Five copies of this inventory will be furnished General Headquarters, Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers, and will be submitted in the English language.
3. The Imperial Japanese Government is directed to retain all such properties under custody and will not permit any transactions or movement of such properties.
4.The Imperial Japanese Government will issue an Offiial Ordinance covering the above instructions and providing adequate penalties for violators. Five copies of such Ordinance both in English and Japanese languages will be submitted to General Headquarters, Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers, by 7 May 1946.

FOR THE SUPREME COMMANDER:

B.M. FITCH,
Brigadier General, AGD,
Adjutant General.