OFFICIAL GAZETTE

ENQLISH EDITION GOVERNMENTPRINTINGBUREAU

No. 20 SATURDAY, APRIL 27, 1946

We, recognizing the urgent necessity of IMPERIAL ORDINANCE the Ordinance concerning the maximum lmit We sanction the Ordinance for the amend- of Treasuary Billsand Temporary Government ment of the Imperial Ordinance No. 58 of the Loan in the twenty-first fiscalyear -of Showa twenty-first Year of Showa (1946) pertaining (1946-17), hereby give thereto Our sanction with to the Special Cases of the Temporary Person- the advice of the Privy Council, in accordance nel Readjustment Ordinance concerning the with Paragraph 1 of Article 70 of the Imperial Personnel of the Embassies, Legations and Constitution, and cause the said Ordinance to other Agencies abroad of the Foreign Ministry be promulgated. and hereby promulgate it. Signed: Hirohito, Seal of the Emperor Signed: Hirohito, Seal of the Emperor This twenty-sixth day of the fourth month This twenty-sixth day of the fourth month of the twenty-first Year of Showa (25 of the twenty-first year of Showa (26 April, April, 1946) 1946) Countersigned: Countersigned: Baron Kijuro Shidehara Baron Kijuro Shidehara Prime Minister Prime Minister Minister of First Demobilization Shigeru Yoshida Department Foreign Minister Minister of Second Demobiliza- tion Department Imperial Ordinance No. 240 Chuzo Mitsuchi We following amendment shall be made to Minister of Home Affairs the Imperial Ordinance No. 58 of the twenty- Chuzo Iwata firstyear of Showa (1946): Minister of Justice The following Paragraph shall be added to Shigeru Yoshida Article I. Minister of Foreign Affairs When in cases under the preceding Joji Matsumoto paragraph, Assistant Technicians of Embassy Minister of State or Legation, or Police Inspectors, Assistant Hitoshi Ashida Police Inspectors or Policemen, of the Foreign Minister of Welfare Ministry, are to retire, it may be assumed Viscount Keizo Shibusawa that the officesof Technicians of Embassy or Minister of Finance Legation, or Police Superintendents, Police Sankuro Ogasawara Inspectors or Assistant Police Inspectors, of Minister of Commerce and Industry the Foreign Ministry, have been Temporarily Yoshishige Abe Created, and they may be respectively ap- Minister of Education pointed, at the time of their retirement, to Sempachi Soejima the said offices: Provided that this does not Minister of Agriculture and Forestry preclude the application of the Provisions Giichi Murakami pertaining to qualificationsfor the appointment Minister of Transportation of Government Officials Takeshige Ishiguro Supplementary Provision: Minister of State The present Ordinance shall come into Wataru Narahashi force as from the day of its promulgation. Minister of State Imperial Ordinance No. 241 TakeshigeIshiguro The maximum limit of Treasury Billsand Ministerof State Temporary Government Loan to be issued or Wataru Narahashi borrowed, under Article6 of the Account Law, Ministerof State shall be 3,500,000000 yen for the fiscalyear of 1946 47,inclusiveof the amount authorized in the Budget. Imperial Ordinance No. 242 Supplementary provision: The Government may disburse the follow- The present ordinance shallcome in o force ing expenditure of the General Account for the as from the day of its promulgation. fiscal year of 1946-47. .1. Expenses for the repatriation of overseas We, recognizing the urgent necessityof the government personnel 50,000,000yen Ordinance forthe Disbursement of the Expenses 2. Expenses for demobilizatin 820,000,000 for the Repatriation of Overseas Government yen Personnel and Others, hereby give theretoOur 3. Expeneses for post-war settlement of sanction with the advice of the Privy Council, affairs500,000,000yen in accordance with Paragraph 1 of Article70 4. Subsidy for the price adjustment of of the Imperial Constitution,and the said coal 325,000,000yen Ordinance to be promulgated. 5. Subsidy to Civilian Merchant Marine Signed: Hirohito,Seal of the Emperor Commission 150,000,000yen This twenty-sixth day of the fourth month 6. Expenses for transportation of repatri- of the twenty-firstyear of Showa (26 April, ates 278,000,000yen 1946). Supplementary Provision: Countersigned: The present ordinance shall come into force Baron Kijuro Shidehara as from the day of its promulgation. Prime Minister Minister of First Demobiliza- tion Department Minister of Second Demobiliza- We hereby give Our Sanction to the tion Department Ordinance for the Restriction or Prohibition on Chuzo Mitsuchi Dividends of Corporations and Others No. Minister of Home Affairs of the twenty-first year of Showa (1946) con- Chuzo Iwata cerning the Orders to be issued in consequence Minister of Justice of Our Acceptance of the Declaration of Shigeru Yoshida Potsdam, and cause the said Ordinance to be Minister of Foreign Affairs promulgated. JojiMatsumoto Signed: Hirohito, Seal of the Emperor Minister of State April 1945 Hitoshi Ashida This twenty-sixth day of the fourth month Minister of Walfare of the twenty-first year of Showa (26 April, Viscount Keizo Shibusawa 1946). Minister of Finance Countersigned: Sankuro Ogasawara Baron Kijuro Shidehara Minister of Commerce and Prime Minister Industry Viscount Keizo Shibusawa Yoshishige Abe Minister of Finance Minister of Education Sankuro Ogasawara Sempachi Soejima Minister of Commerce and Industry Minister of Agriculture and Sempachi Soejima Forestry Minister of Agriculture and Forestry Giichi Murakami Giichi Murakami Minister of Transportation Minister of Transportation

Q- ^ Imperial Ordinance No. 243 surplus violating the prohibition and res- Ordinance relating to the Restriction or triction. Prohibition on Dividends of Corporations and Article 4. The Minister of Finance, if deemed Others. necessary, prescribe by ordinance the sub- Article 1. Judical persons (excluding banks, mission of reports concerning status of trust companies, insurance companies, and business or property of judical person otheis stipulated by ordinance) whose under stated in Article 1 Paragraph 1 or capital(hereafter referring to subscriptions, the despatch of competent officialsto in- stocks or the total of subscriptions and spect necessary places and to examine stocks) exceeds two hundred thousand books, documents and other objects. (200,000) yen and who have received or Article 5. A director or corresponding member have claim for war insurance payments or of a judical person under stated in Article government indemnity or who possess over- 1 Paragraph 1 shall be subject to penal seas assets or who are specified by the servitude of five (5) years or less or to a Minister of Finance according to the pro- fine of fifty thousand (50,000) yen or less visions of Article 1―(2) of the Imperial in the following cases: Ordinance No. 675 of 1945 may not pay (1) if a judical person violates the provisions dividends of profits and surplus in the of Article 1 Paragraph 1. following cases; (2) if a judical person violatesthe provisions (1) if the rate of dividend is in excess of of Article 2 Paragraph 2. five(5) per cent. (3) if a judical person violates the provisions (2) if the total amount of dividend pay- of Article 3 Paragraph 2. ments is in excess of the net profit of Article 6. Any person who has failed to sub- the business year concerned calculatedin mit a report according to Article 2, who the manner prescribed by ordinance. has made a false statement or who has (3) Other case stipulated by ordinance. refused or prevented the inspection and War insurance, government indemnity examination by competent officialsshallbe and overseas assets stated in the preceding subject to penal servitude of one year or paragraph shall be fixed by ordinance. less or a fine of ten thousand (10,000) yen or less. Article 2. The Minister of Finance may, if Article 7. In case, a representative, agent em- deemed necessary, order judical persons ployee, or other worker has committed an designated by him from among those stated illegal act violating the preceding two in Paragraph 1 of the preceding Article to articles,the judical person himself shall be have their settlement of accounts audited servitude to a fine of the preceding two by competent officials. articles in addition to the punishment Judical persons, if received orders given to the actual offender. according to the provisions of the preceding paragraph with reference to auditions of Supplementary Provision: profits and surplus until audited according The present Ordinance shall come into to the provisions of the preceding Article. force as from the day of its promulgation. Article 3. The Minister of Finance may, if deemed necessary, prohibit or restrict, MINISTERIAL ORDINANCE during a certain period of time, the dividend payments of judical persons under Ministry of Finance Ordinance stated in Article 1 Paragraph 1 who have No. 59 distributed profits or surplus for the busi- April 27,1946' ness year ending before the enforcement Enforcement Regulations of the Imperial of this Ordinance, after August 15th, Ordinance relating to the Restrictionor Pro- 1945. hibition on Dividends of Corporations and Judical persons concerned, if prohibited Others. or restricted according to the preceding Minister of Finance Paragraph cannot distribute profits or Viscount Keizo Shibusawa

3 ― Article 1. War insurance referred to in Article graph 1, Item 2 of the Ordinance is the 1 of the Imperial Ordinance relating to the amount obtained by deducting the gross Restriction and Prohibition on Dividends loss from the gross profit of the judical of Corporations and Others (hereinafter person at the final settlement of accounts referred to as the " Ordinance") shall be of the business year concerned. war insurance pursuant to the Special The following amount shall not be in- War-time Insurance Act, war insurance cluded in computing the gross profit under pursuant to the Wooden Ship Insurance the provisions of the preceding items; Act, and marine insurance against accident (1) net profit brought forward from the by attack capture in war or other conflict preceding business year or amount re- or against other causes disposed of cor- funded from reserve funds; respondingly according to commercial cus- (2) the amount exceeding face value in tom. case of issuance of stocks above par; Government indemnity referred to in (3) balance of profit resulting from mer- Article 1 of the Ordinance shall be the in- ger; demnity for losses to judical persons arris- (4) balance of profit resulting from de- ing from the execution of Government crease of capital; orders, instructions or directions concern- (5) profit from reappraisal of assets ; and ing the increase of war-production, en- (6) other amount similar to the preceding largement of equipments, conversion of items and designated by the Minister of enterprises and factory evacuation or the Finance; conscription of ships. Article 3. Other cases referred to in Article 1 Overseas assets referred to in Article Paragraph 1 Item 3 of the Ordinance are 1 of the Ordinance shall be the following as follows; provided in the Ordinance of Ministry oi (1) when the amount obtained ty deduct- Finance No. 95 of 1945; irg the total floating liabilitiesfrom the (1) all property overseas (hereinafter in gross floating assets on the balance eluding regions designated by the Minis- sheet is less than the total amount; ter of Finance); (2) when funds need to be borrowed to (2) all credits, claims, bank deposits anc pay dividends; other deposits or credit transaction (3) when the amount of (A) exceeds the obligating overseas residents; amount of (B). (3) overseas enterprises, businesses and a) The excess, if any, of the aggregate investment therein; amount of war insurance payments or (4) all negotiable securities, checks, al government indemnity, or claim for kinds of bills,receipts,insurance policies war insurance or government indemni- or other evidences of ownership or ob ty and amount of overseas assets,en- ligation issued by or obligating overseas tered in the assets column of the residents; balance sheet of judical persons, over (5) all overseas copywrights, patents the aggregate amount of the reserve trade mark right, and all contracts o] funds which is amount retained after licences thereof; distribution out of the profits and sur- (6) Bank of Japan Notes, coins (gold coin: plus of the competent business year excluded), small denomination note; and the reserve funds at the settlement issued by the Government, special sup of accounts of the business year plemental currency, and allother currency concerned. excluding type " B " supplemental " Yen' b) The excess, if any, in the value at Notes; and the end of the business year concerned (7) all other things similar to those statec of movable properties, immovable pro- in the preceding items. perties rights, and other properties on Article 2. The net profits of the business yeai the inventory at the end of the com- concerned referred to in Article 1 Para petent business year (the fixed assets of

4 ― the business of companies, and nego- specific expe diture) on the assets tiable instruments with a current price column of the balance sheet of judical of the stock exchange amount shall not persons, the amount corresponning to exceed the value provided in Article this assets is deducted from the gross 285 of the Commercial Code) over the amount of floating debts. amount entered in the inventory at the Article 5. Judical persons to which the provi- end of the competent business ye^r. sions of Article 1 Paragraph 1 of the Or- Floating assets referred to in the dinance apply shall submit a report to the preceding paragraph; Item 1, shall Minister of Finance if they have declared mean raw materials, finished goods a dividend after the enforcement of this and unfinished goods, by-products, Ordinance in accordance with attached scrap materials negotiable securities Form within thirty (30) days after the de- (which shall mean bonds, debentures, claration of dividends by the general meet- stocks etc. possessed with the object ing of stock holders or the agreement of of temporary money-earning and cap- all members or other similar declarations. able of being easily converted to money> Article 6. Judical persons to which the provi- and shall exclude negotiable securities sions of Article 1, Paragraph 1, Item 1 of to be held for a long period of time or the Ordinance apply shall submit a report possessed for a certain purpose as to the Minister of Finance it they have those held against employees deposits, declared a dividend for the business year self-insurance and others) short-time ending before the enforcement of this Or credit, pending credit, uncollected dinance, after August 15th 1945 in accord- money, prepared expense, deposits, ance with attached Form within thirty(30) (which shall exclude deposits made days after the enforcement of this against legal retirement allowance, Ordinance. employees deposits and other deposits Article 7. As regard to reports, which judical with a certain purpose) cash and other persons are required to submit according assets which are cspable of being con- to the provisions of this Ordinance, iudical verted in short time into other types persons specifiedby the Minister of Finance of assets. shall draw up two copies submitting them The followings are not floating directly to the Minister of Finance while assets in the sense stated above. the others shall draw up three copies, sub- (1) Materials, unfinished goods as a re- mitting them through the branch office of sult of the termination of war which the Regional Finance Bureau having juris- are no more required and other similar diction over the place where the head office things. and principal place of business thereof is (2) Claims for war insurance payments located. or government indemnity. Supplementary Provision: (3) Special deposits of war insurance The present ordinance shall come into force payments and government indemnity. as from the day of the promulgation of the Ordinance relating to the Restriction or Pro- (4) Overseas assets. hibition on Dividends of Corporations and Floating debts shall mean short others. term borrowing, pending debts, pay- ments received, deposits, unpaid money, Form (under the Regulation Article 5 and profits received in advance, and other 6). obligation which are of indefinits due REPORT ON DIVIDENDPAYMENT OF date or obligations which do not fall SURPLUS(PROFITS;- Tele. due within a year. The personin charge In case floating debts made against To the Ministerof Finance Special Assets (which shall mean assets Date Address which stands separately from the assets Trade-name on business but is used only for a (Name of representative)(Seal)

o Regarding the above subject we hereby Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry Ordinance submit a report as follows: No. 27 (1) Amount of capital and of capital paid April 27, 1946 up. Among the articledirected in the Ordinance (2) Major business of the judical person. No. 6 of the Ministry of Agriculture and (3) Business year of dividend payment of Commerce, issued in 1910, regarding kinds of major products and examination commissions, profits or surplus. Term: from to the following articleis revised as follows. Fixed date for the final settlement. Minister of Agriculture and Forestry Sempachi Soejima (4) Computation of net profit of the busi- " 15 sen " provided in the column of timber, ness year concerned. of Paragraph 1 of Article 2 of the above Net profit of the judical person at the ordinance is revised as " 80 sen " hereinafter. final settlement ( Supplementary Provision: Margin ( This ordinance is effectivefrom the day of ( issue. Net profit (5) Dividend rate and total amount of

dividends of the business year con- NOTIFICATION cerned. (6) Explanation about the dividend con- Cabinet Notification No. 14 cerned not corresponding to the case of April 27, 1946 Article 3 Item 1 of the Regulation. The date provided in paragraph 2 of the (7) Explanation about the dividend con- Supplementary Provisions of the Imperial cerned not corresponding to the case of Ordinance No. 175 of 21st year of Showa (1946) Article 3 Item 2 of the Regulation. shall be April 30th of 21st year of Showa. (8) Explanation about the dividend con- Prime Minister cerned not corresponding to the case of Baron Kiju.ro Shidehara Article 3 Item 3 of the Regulation. (9) Other reference. Note: Cabinet NotificationNo. 15 (1)(4) shall show the net profit obtained April 27,1946 by adding to or deducting from the Cabinet NotificationNo. 18 and No. 19 of profit at the final settlement of the the eighteenth yeor of Showa (1943) shallbe judical person the item stated under in abrogated on April 30th. Article 2 of the Regulation. Prime Minister (2) In (6) and (8), the basis on which the Baron Kijuro Shidehara computation stands shall be calarifiedon the basis of the balance sheet of the competent business year of the judical Board of Communications' Notification person. No. 122 (3) In report stated under Article 6 of the April 27, 1946 Regulation, the basis of computation The following post officesshall be establi- shall be clarified. shed on the dates mentioned below, and shall (4) The Balance Sheet of the business be designated as Special Post Office without year for the dividend payments of pro- mail collection and delivery service in accor- fitsor surplus, Profit and Loss Account dance with the provisory clause of Art. 10, and Documents on disposal of profits Paragraph I of the Regulation governing Organic and surplus shall be accompanies by this zation for Communication Offices. report. Acting President, Board of Communications : Torasaburo Shintani

6 ― Name of Post Location Established Board of Communications' Notification Office Date No. 125 Fukagawa-shira- 4-chome, Shirakawa- Apr. 21, 1946 April 27, 1946 kawa Post Office machi, Fukagawa-ku, The following branch post officewas moved Tokyo (within the postal on March 10, 1946. districtof Kyobashi Acting President,Board of Communications Post Office) Tnrasahnrn Shintani Fukagawa-Sagacho 1-chome, Eitai,Fuka- Name of branch Former New- Post Office gawa-ku, Tokyo postoffice Location Location (within the postal Postal Section Oitasaiku-machi, Oitaniage-machi, districtof Kyobashi Branch of Oita Oita-shi Oita-shi Post Office) Post Office Yotsuya-Shinjuku-3 3-chome, Shinjuku, Apr. 16, 1946 Post Office Yotsuya-ku,Tokyo Board of Communications' Notification (withinthe postal districtofYotsuya No. 126 Post Office) April 27, 1946 M inenobu-Naka- Aza-bibai,Bibai-cho, The following post officeswere abolished goya Post Office Karachi-gunIshikari- on Apr. 1, 1946,however, the affairsthat had koku, Hokkaido been handled at these post officeswere taken (withinthe postal districtofMinenobu over by the officesmentioned below. Post Office) Acting President,Board of Communications Torasaburo Shintani Office taking Name of post Location charge of the Board of Communications' Notification officeabolished abolished office No. 123 Omori-senzoku Kamiikegami- Denenchofu April 27, 1946 Post Office cho,Omori-ku, Post Office The following telegraph and telephone Tokyo agency shall be converted into post office on Yokohama-Kita- Kitanakadori, Yokohama-sho- nakadori Post Naka-ku, Yoko- kinginkonai May 1, 1946, and shall be designated as Special Office hama Post Office Post Office without mail collectionand delivery service in accordance with the provisory clause Ministry of Imperial Household Notification of Paragraph 1, Art. 10, of the Government No. 12 Organization for Communication Offices. April 27, 1946 Acting President, Board of Communications The following amendments are made to Torasaburo Shintani the Imperial Household Ministry Notification Location PresentName New Name No. 31 of 1927. Tomino Telegraph Tomino-mura, Ku- Minister of the Imperial Household and Telephone rihara-gun. Miyagi- Tomino Post Agency ken Office Vis:ount Yoshitami Matsudaira (Within the Pos al district of Truki- " The Han-nin officials and those treated date Post Office) as Han-nin officials" in the forms annexed to the Notification shall read "The third class officials and those treated as third class officials Board of Communications' Notification as well as the third rank officialsof the Imperial No. 124 Household." April 27, 1946

The following post office was moved on Ministry ofImperial Household Notification Feb. 18, 1946. No. 13 Acting President, Board of Communications April 27,1946 Torasaburo Shintani H.M. The Emperor has signifiedHisinten- Name_of Former Location New Location Post Office tion that the annual Banquet on the occasion Setagaya-Nishima- 2-chome, Matsu- 3-chome, Matsu- of H.M. The Emperor's Birthday on April 29 tsubara Post Office bara. Setagaya- bara, Setagaya- ku, Tokyo ku, Tokyo shallnot be held this year. Minister of the Imperial Household Viscount Yoshitami Matsudaira

･7 Ministry of Imperial Household Notification Ministry of Finance Notification No. 14 No. 311 April 27,1946 April 27,1946 H.M. The Emperor has signifiedthat the In accordance with Article 2 Item 6 of Japanese people may offer their congratula- the Enforcement Regulations relating to the tions on the occasion of H.M. The Emperor's Ordinance of Restriction or Prohibition on Birthday on Apri 29 as follows:― Dividend Payments of Corporations and For the personnel granted the grade Others, the followings are excluded from net between tne 13th grade of the 1st rank profitin computing the net profit of judical and downwards of the Imperial Court persons. Rank, (except the officialsofthe 2nd rank Minister of Finance and upwards and those treated as the Viscount Keizo Shibusawa same rank of the Imperial Household,) Profitobtained by sellingfixed assets those granted the CulturalOrder of Merit, Profitof insurance and the abbots of the Monzeki temples. At the Imperial Palace, from 9 a.m. Ministry of Finance Notification to 4 p.m. No. 312 April 27, 1946 For the 3rd class officialsand those treated as the 3rd class officialsof the The following amendments are made to government and the 3rd rank officialsof the Ministry of Finance Notice No. 25 of the Imperial Household, February 1946. Minister of Finance At each officeat the time appointed Viscount Keizo Shibusawa by each office. Item 2 shall be amended to read as Dress: follows: Morning coat or corresponding dress. 2. The amount necessary to pay annuity Minister of the Imperial Household payments, injury or sickness allowances, or Viscount Yoshitami Matsudaira birth allowances, to members of mutual aid associationsor health insurance associations organized under Imperial Ordinances. Pro- Ministry of Finance Notification vided that the amount shall not exceed five No. 310 hundred (500) yen per each person per month. April 27, 1946 In accordance with Article 1 Item 2 of the Enforcement Regulations relating to the Ministry of Finance Notification Ordinance of Restriction or Prohibition on No. 313 Dividend Payments of Corporations and Others, April 27, 1946 the following places involved in overseas are The followingamendments are made to the hereby designated. Ministry of Finance Notice No. 27 of February Minister of Finance 1946. Viscount Keizo Shibusawa Minister of Finance 1. Korea, Formosa, Kwangtung Province, Viscount Keizo Shibusawa Pacific Islands formally under mandate by The following amendments are made to Japan and Karafuto. Item 2B. 2. The Kurile Islands. Item 2B. The amount necessary to pay 3. The Bonin Islands and'the Iwo Islands. allowances other than annity payments injury 4. Lianoourt Rocke. or sicknessallowance and birth allowances or 5. The South-western islands south of 30° to pay the amount in excess of five hundred North Latitude. (500)yen per each person per month of annuity 6. The Daito Island, Parece Vela, Marous and payments, injury or sickness allowances and Ganges Islands. birth allowances to members of mutual aid associationsor health insurance associations organized under Imperial Ordinances.

8 ― The following item shall be added after in accordance with the clause No. 1, Article1, Item 5C. No. 1, Ordinance, Ministriesof Education and 5D. The amount necessary for the pay- Commerce and Industry (20 Feb., 1946), in ment on purchase of government properties; relativeto the management of factories,work- for the payment of the differencein value in shops, etc. based on the Order issued by No. case of exchange with the same or for the 542, Imperial Ordinance (1945), accepting the payment of indemnity claims or damages for Potsudam Declaration. breach of contract in connection with govern- Foundational JuridicalPerson: ment properties,upon presentationof a notice Applied Chemistry Research Institute. of collectionissued by the reserve collecting Foundational JuridicalPerson: officialor assistantthereof. Aeronautical Sliding Research In- stitute. Foundational JuridicalPerson: Ministry of Finance Notification Aeronautical Light Metal Research In- No. 314 stitute. April 27, 1946 Minister of Education The following amendment are made to the YoshishisreAbe Ministry of Finance Notice No. 27 of February 1946. Minister of Finance Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry Viscount Keizo Shibusawa NotificationNo. 86 Item 3C shall be amended to read as April 27, 1946 follows: In accordance with Article III of the 3C. The amount necessary to pay school Ordinance for Emergency Measures for con- fee of students or pupisl. cealed and Hoarded Goods, it is determined as follows: Ministry of Justice Notification Rice,barley, naked barley, wheat, cereals, No. 32 cereal flours,sweet potato, Irish potato and April 27,1946 their processed foods, bread, noodles, starch The following school shall be added next foods,canned goods, and sugar. to the Wakayama Prefectural Medical College Minister of Agriculture and Forestry mentioned in JusticeMinistry NotificationNo. Senpachi Soejima 25, June, 1922. Minister of Justice Chuzo Iwata ERRATA The Mie Prefectural Medical College "In Article 116 " on the seventh line from the end of second column on Page 5, Ministerial Ordinance No. 23 of 1st of this month, shall be Ministry of Education Notification corrected as "In Article 146". No. 44 April 27, 1946 We gave sanction under date of March 29, APPOINTMENT ORDER 1946, of the founding of the Shimane-ken Matsue Library at No. 8, Tonomachi, Matsue April 13, 1946, Ministry of Justice city, and its opening from April 1, 1946. Masashi Takata, Public Procurator Minister of Education Appointed Chief Public Procurator of Nara Yn^hishiVe Abe District Court Granted Salary No. 11

Ministry of Education Notification April 17, 1946, Ministry of Justice No. 45 Judge Masakatsu Yanagawa, Judge of Tokyo April 27,1946 Local Court rhe Institutesnamed below are designated Appointed Judge of Supreme Court

9 ― Judge Mssao Yagita, Chief of Section of of 1946, has been relit on Ap- Tokyo Court of Appeal ril 2, 1946. Appointed Judge of Tokyo Local Court Position On Kanega-Saki, Southwest and Ordered to supervise Tokyo Local Court of Futaoi,-Shima Lat. 34° 05'. Granted Salary No. 11 7.,long. 130° 47'. 1 E. (approx.) Abr. description Gp. Fl. (3) ev. 40sec. 100m. April 20, 1946,Ministry of Justice 25V,M. Judge Gyoshun Chono, Presidentof Matsue 201-179 DistrictCourt Charts Former notice Affected Pilot No. IB. P. 1! Appointed Judge of Supreme Court Light List 100A. No. 721 anc Judge Kazuo Shimomura Light List 100A. No. 721 (forth Appointed President of Matsue DistrictCourt coming)―Notice No. 76 of 194< Granted Salary No, 11 (respectively to be expunged Authority- Lighthouse Bureaus. Feb. 12, 1946, Tohoku Imperial University No. 86 (T.) E. coast of Honshu―Kashima Akira Sato, Professor at Tohoku Imperial Nada About the prohibitec University area. Ordered Member of Civil Service Examination Description The following area has beer Committee approved by use as anti-air Yasutaro Satake, Professor at Tohoku Imperi- craft artillery firing by the U al University S. Army, and all crafts are prohibited to navigation in the Relieved of his office as Member of Civil area after April D. 15, 1946. Service Examination Committee Area The sector between 37° and 129° with a radius of 15 miles with its centre at the under- COLLECTIVE INFORMATION mentioned position. Position About 6,000 metres northward TRANSPORTATION of Naka-Minato Lat. 36°23' 15" Notices to Mariners No. 16 N., long. 140° 36' 30" E. Week ending 27th April,1946 Remarks (a) The firingin this area will Notices Nos. 85-86 be directed from gun position (near East Mito Airfield). KIICHI ARITA (b) All crafts want to use this Hydrographic Depart- Acting Hydrographer area when not engaged for the ment, Tokyo. of the Japanese fishing purpose should present Government. an application to be the Com- Index manding General Fifth Bom- Locality Notice No. bers Command, Johnson Field, All the coastof Japan Suppl.(31) Irumagawa, through the prec- N.W. coast of Japan 86-Suppl. (32) fecture Governer. E. coast of Japan 85 Reference Chart 62. Kyushu Suppl.(33) Publication Pilot No. 1A. p. 226. S.W. Islands Suppl.(33) Authority U. S. Navy. E. coast of China Suppl.(33) Supplement: (31) Japanese coast-About the existing No. 85 (T.) Northward of W. entrance to state of Sweeping Operation. Shimonoseki Strait―Futaoi- Description The existing state of sweeping Shima Lt. Restored. operation for mines in every dis- Description Futaoi-Shima Light (Gp. Fl. W.) trictof Japanese waters are shown formerly noticed to have been in the following table. extinguished by Notice No. 76 (1) For induction mines (laid by U. S. Forces)

― 10 - Completed or not District Magnetic mine pressure mine Date expected sweeping sweeping to be completed

Off Erimosaki, offInubo-saki no unfixed

Osaka Hr. yes yes (Apr. 14) Passage Osaka to Kobe (breadth 200m.) yes Kobe Hr. Kobe (Donkey, Lat. 34°34'.6N. Long. 135°05'.6E.) Passage (breadth 2,000m.) Passage Donkey to Tomoga-Shima (breadth 2,000m.) Passage Donkey to Akashi-Seto (breadth 2,000m.) yes (almost) unfixed Passage Akashi-Seto to Hiuchi-Nada (breadth 1,000- no about Aug. 1946 2,000m.) under operation Passage In-no-Shima to Kurushima Kaikyo (breadth 1,000- yes unfixed 2,000m.) Kurushima-Kaikyo: Passage Tadanoumi to Hinoura (breadth 1,000m.) Aki-Nada channel Aki-Nada & Hiroshima Bay Otake, Uzina. partly Hiroshima, Kure (breadth 400m.) Hiro bay to Hayasui Seto (breadth 400m.) no Passage Tsurushima-Suido-Southside of Yashima-Eastern entrance to Shimonoseki-Kaikyo (North Channel Iyo-Nada, Suwo-Nada (breadth 1,000m.)) Passage Hoguri-Suido (breadth 1,000m.) partly

Passage Hayasui-Seto to Tokuyama ; & Kasadoura (breadth yes 1,000m.) North passage of Suwo-Nada (breadth 600m.) Saegi Bay no end of July 1946 Eastern entrance to Shimonoseki-kaikyo : S. E. Channel (Breadth 600m.) yes unfixed* North Channel partly Middle Channel no South Channel yes Shimonoseki-Moji Hr. middle of July 1946 Western entrance to Shimonoseki-Kaikyo : Swept Channel No. 3 (breadth 600m.) end of August* 1946 Mutsure Road under operation end of August 1946 North Kyushu passage no unfixed Wakamatsu passage (breadth 200m.) yes Funakawa: Road no Swept channel partly Sakata: Road Swept channel partly

no Nigata: Road no Swept channel (breadth 1,000m.) yes

Naoetu: Road no

Swept channel >> Fushiki: Swept channel No. 1 (breadth 300m.) yes yes (almost) Swept channel No. 2 (breadth 300m.)

―11 ― Completed or not District Magnetic mine pressure mine Date expected sweeping sweeping to be completed unfixed Nanao: Road yes yes (almost) Oguchi channel under operation no Koguchi channel Byobu-Seto

Tsuruga: Road Swept channel

Obama : Road no Swept channel partly

Maizuru: East Road under operation West Road yes Swept channel (breadth 500m.)

Miyazu: Swept channel (breadth 400m.) Hamada: Swept channel no Hagi: Road Swept channel yes

Senzaki: Swept channel No. 1 (breadth 1,000m.) yes (almost) Swept channel No. 3 (breadth 1,000m.)

Sakai: Swept channel under operation Nakanoumi channel no

Oki Island : Swept channel no Road

Yuya Bay: Road Swept channel

Hakata Bay: Road yes

Swept channel No. 1 (breadth 800m.) >> Swept channel Nos. 2, 4, 5 (breadth 700m. each) Karatsu Bay : Swept channel (breadth 500m.) Channel No. 1 yes (Apr. 9) Swept channel No. 2 (breadth 600m.) under operation no

Remarks: Miyako-Shima. 1. Sweeping operation for acoustic mines The report about the sweeping operations completed already in every district. of the mine barrages at the southward of 2. To be extended to breadth 2,000 metres, Ryukyu-Sho west coast of Taiwan (Formosa) is under operation for eastward in Hiuchi- not received now. Nada to be extended to breadth 1,000 Supplement: metres, do. breadth 800 metres. (32) Northwest coast of Honshu―Maizuru (2) Sweeping operation for mooring mines Bay About mine barrage (laid by Japanese Forces) By the positions of the mines found and Sweeping operations in the Japanese waters of compound mines disposed on shore, ex- is almost completed except under-mentioned istence of barrage of compound mines is as- areas which operations are stillgoing on. sumed on the line (223° direction) passing Areas―Eastern & Western entrance to through about 550 metres southward of Baku- Soya-Kaikyo. chi-Saki Lt. Staff(Lat. 35° 32'. ON., long. 135° Off Shiranuka, Saishu-To (Quelpert Is.), 20'.3E. approx.)

― 12 ― (Chart No. 117 Former Notice No. 16 of THE IMPERIAL DIET 1946 Suppl. (2) annexed plan refferedto) THE HOUSE OF PEERS (Authority―Sweeping Section, Maizuru District) April16,1946 Member of the house of Peers. (33) Driftsdangerous to navigationDrifting ShibataHeiichiro mines Relievedof Membership at own request. April23,1946 Reff. Member of the house of Peers. Date reported Position chart Reporter Yonehara Shozo April 8, About 7,5 milesE. S.S.Yashiko Ditto Otani Gohei 1946,1730 ward of Akuseki- Maru Ditto NiheiTaijiro Shima, S.W. ernIs.182A Relievedof Membership at own request. Lat. 29° 30' N., April 11, long. 129° 45'E. NOTICE 1946,1700 Eastern Sea 1002 SUMMONS OF APPEARANCE Lat.28°36'N.,long. S.S.Hcei The accussed: Mamoru Torigoe 124°25' E. About Maru No. 6 The above-mentioned person is hereby re- 4 milesN.W. ward quested to appear in the criminal court room cf Chikuzen Oshima at 10 a.m. on June 18 1946 for the trialof the L.H.,North coast 1228 case of violation of the National Mobilization Law. April 11, of Kyushu. The Okayama Local Court Judge Tomoichi 1946,1712 Lat. 33° 57' N., Muraki long. 130°21'E. April 15, 1946

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