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GENERAL HEADQUARTERS SUPREME COMMANDER FOR THE ALLIED POWERS 15 December 1945 AG 000.3 (15 Dec 45) CIE (SCAPIN-448) MEMORANDUM FOR: IMPERIAL JAPANESE GOVERNMENT. THROUGH                    : Central Liaison Office, Tokyo. SUBJECT                       : Abolition of Governmental Sponsorship, Support, Perpetuation, Control, and Dissemination of State Shinto (Kokka Shinto, Jinja Shinto). 1. In order to free the Japanese people from direct or indirect compulsion to believe or profess to believe in a religion or cult officially designated by the state, and In order to lift from the Japanese people the burden of compulsory financial support of an ideology which has contributed to their war guilt, defeat, suffering, privation, and present deplorable condition, and In order to prevent a recurrence of the perversion of Shinto theory and beliefs into militaristic and ultra-nationalistic propaganda designed to delude the Japanese people and lead them into wars of aggression, and In order to assi

GENERAL HEADQUARTERS SUPREME COMMANDER FOR THE ALLIED POWERS 9 December 1945 AG 602.6 (9 Dec 45) CIE (SCAPIN-411) MEMORANDUM FOR: IMPERIAL JAPANESE GOVERNMENT. THROUGH                    : Central Liaison Office, Tokyo. SUBJECT                       : Rural Land Reform. 1. In order that the Imperial Japanese Government shall remove economic obstacles to the revival and strengthening of democratic tendencies, establish respect for the dignity of man, and destroy the economic bondage which has enslaved the Japanese farmer to centuries of feudal oppression, the Japanese Imperial Government is directed to take measures to insure that those who till the soil of Japan shall have a more equal opportunity to enjoy the fruits of their labor. 2. The purpose of this order is to exterminate those pernicious ills which have long blighted the agrarian structure of a land where almost half the total population is engaged in husbandry. The more malevolent of these ills include: a. Intense overcrowding

GENERAL HEADQUARTERS SUPREME COMMANDER FOR THE ALLIED POWERS 6 November 1945 AG 004 (6 Nov 45) ESS/ADM (SCAPIN-244) MEMORANDUM FOR: IMPERIAL JAPANESE GOVERNMENT. THROUGH                    : Central Liaison Office, Tokyo. SUBJECT                       :Dissolution of Holding Companies. 1. Receipt of the proposed plan for the dissolution of Mitsui Honsha, Yasuda Hozensha, Sumitomo Honsha and Kabushiki Kaisha Mitsubishi Honsha is acknowledged. 2. The plan proposed therein is approved in general and the Imperial Japanese Government will immediately proceed to effectuate it. No disposition of any property transfered to the Holding Company Liquidation Commission will be made without the prior approval of the Supreme Commander. You will submit the legislation through which the Holding Company Liquidation Commission will be created to the Supreme Commander for approval. It should be clearly understood that full freedom of action is retained by the Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers to el

GENERAL HEADQUARTERS SUPREME COMMANDER FOR THE ALLIED POWERS APO 500 4 January 1946 AG 091.1 (4 Jan 46) GS (SCAPIN-550) MEMORANDUM FOR: IMPERIAL JAPANESE GOVERNMENT THROUGH                  : Central Liaison Office, Tokyo. SUBJECT                    : Removal and Exclusion of Undesirable Personnel from Public Office. 1. The Potsdam Declaration states: ''There must be eliminated for all time the authority and influence of those who have deceived and misled the people of Japan into embarking on world conquest, for we insist that a new order of peace, security, and justice will be impossible until irresponsible militarism is driven from the world''. 2. In order to carry out this provision of the Potsdam Declaration, the Imperial Japanese Government is hereby ordered to remove from public office and exclude from government service all persons who have been: a. Active exponents of militaristic nationalism and aggression. b. Influential members of any Japanese ultra-nationali

GENERAL HEADQUARTERS SUPREME COMMANDER FOR THE ALLIED POWERS APO 500 29 January 1946 AG 091 (29 Jan 46) GS (SCAPIN-677) MEMORANDUM FOR: IMPERIAL JAPANESE GOVERNMENT. THROUGH                    : Central Liaison Office, Tokyo. SUBJECT                       : Governmental and Administrative Separation of Certain Outlying Areas from Japan. 1. The Imperial Japanese Government is directed to cease exercising, or attempting to exercise, governmental or administrative authority over any area outside of Japan, or over any government officials and employees or any other persons within such areas. 2. Except as authorized by this Headquarters, the Imperial Japanese Government will not communicate with government officials and employees or with any other persons outside of Japan for any purpose other than the routine operation of authorized shipping, communications and weather services. 3. For the purpose of this directive, Japan is defined to include the four main islands of Japan (Hokkaido, Hons

OFFICE OF THE SUPREME COMMANDER FOR THE ALLIED POWERS 4 October 1945 MEMORANDUM FOR : IMPERIAL JAPANESE GOVERNMENT. THROUGH : Central Liaison Office, Tokyo. SUBJECT : Removal of Restrictions on Political, Civil and Religious Liberties. 1. In order to remove restrictions on political, civil and religious liberties and discrimination on grounds of race, nationality, creed or political opinion, the Imperial Japanese Government will: a. Abrogate and immediately suspend the operation of all provisions of all laws, decrees, orders, ordinances and regulations which: (1) Establish or maintain restrictions on freedom of thought, of religion, of assembly and of speech, including the unrestricted discussion of the Emperor, the Imperial Institution and the Imperial Japanese Government. (2) Establish or maintain restrictions on the collection and dissemination of information. (3) By their terms of their application, operate unequally in favor of or against any person by reason of race, nationality,