I rejoice that the foundation for the construction of a new Japan has been laid according to the will of the Japanese people, and hereby sanction and promulgate the amendments of the Imperial Japanese Constitution effected following the consultation with the Privy Council and the decision of the Imperial Diet made in accordance with Article 73 of the said Constitution.
Signed: HIROHITO, Seal of the Emperor
This third day of the eleventh month of the twenty-first year of Showa (November 3, 1946)
Countersigned:
| Prime Minister and concurrently Minister for Foreign Affairs |
Yoshida Shigeru |
| Minister of State | Baron Shidehara Kijuro |
| Minister of Justice | Kimura Tokutaro |
| Minister for Home Affairs | Omura Seiichi |
| Minister of Education | Tanaka Kotaro |
| Minister of Agriculture and Forestry | Wada Hiroo |
| Minister of State | Saito Takao |
| Minister of Communications | Hitotsumatsu Sadayoshi |
| Minister of Commerce and Industry | Hoshijima Niro |
| Minister of Welfare | Kawai Yoshinari |
| Minister of State | Uehara Etsujiro |
| Minister of Transportation | Hiratsuka Tsunejiro |
| Minister of Finance | Ishibashi Tanzan |
| Minister of State | Kanamori Tokujiro |
| Minister of State | Zen Keinosuke |
(IV)
