740.00115 PW/3–2946
The Officer in Charge of the Office of the Political Adviser in Japan to the Department of State
[Received April 8.]
The Officer in Charge has the honor to forward copies, in quadruplicate, of a memorandum from the Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers to the Japanese Government, dated March 16, 1946,48 which sets forth basic instructions covering the repatriation of Japanese nationals from the areas of the various military commanders in the Far East and of displaced persons in Japan formerly domiciled in China, Formosa, and the Ryukyus. This directive supersedes all previous instructions to the Japanese Government on the general subject of repatriation.
It will be noted that the directive will not apply to the repatriation of Japanese nationals from the areas under the military control of the Commander in Chief of Soviet Forces in the Far East until appropriate agreements have been consummated.
- Scapin–822, not printed.↩