AG 091 (29 Jan 46) GS 29 January 1946
( SCAPlN- 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 over 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, Honshu, Kyushu and Shikoku) and the approximately
1,000 smaller adjacent islands, including the Tsushima Islands and the
Ryukyu (Nansei) Islands north of 30 North Latitude (excluding Kuchinoshima
Island)
; and excluding (a) Utsuryo (Ullung) Island, Liancourt Rocks (Take Island)
and Quelpart (Saishu or Cheju) Island, (b) the Ryukyu (Nansei) Islands
south of 30 North Latitude (including Kuchinoshima Island), the Izu,
Nanpo, Bonin (Ogasawara) and Volcano (Kazan or Iwo) Island Groups, and
all other outlying Pacific Islands [including the Daito (Chigashi or Oagari)
Island Group, and Parece Vala (Okino-tori), Marcus (Minami-tori) and Ganges
(Nakano-tori) Islands], and (c) the Kurile (Chishima) Islands, the Habomai
(Hapomace) Island Group (including Suisho, Yuri, Akiyuri Shibotsu and Taraku
Islands) and Shikotan Island.
4. Further areas specifically excluded from the governmental and administrative
jurisdiction of the Imperial Japanese Government are the following: (a)
all Pacific Islands seized or occupied under mandate or otherwise by Japan
since the beginning of the World War in 1914, (b) Manchuria, Formosa and
the Pescadores, (c) Korea, and (d) Karafuto.
5. The definition of Japan contained in this directive shall also apply
to all future directives, memoranda and orders from this Headquarters unless
otherwise specified therein.
6. Nothing in this directive shall be construed as an indication of Allied policy relating to the ultimate determination of the minor islands referred to in Article 8 of the Potsdam Declaration.
7. The Imperial Japanese Government will prepare and submit to this Headquarters
a report of all governmental agencies in Japan the functions of which pertain
to areas outside oi Japan as defined in this directive. Such report will
include a statement of the functions, organization and personnel of each
of the agencies concerned.
8. All records of the agencies referred to in paragraph 7 above will be
preserved and kept available for inspection by this Headquarters.