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[Title] Amendment of SCAPIN 47, (Directive No. 3)

[Place]
[Date] May 25, 1946
[Source] Documents, Concerning, The Allied Occupation and Control of Japan, Volume 1 Basic Documents, Compiled by Division of Special Records, Foreign Office, Japanese Government, pp.87-89.
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[Full text]

Amendment of SCAPIN 47, (Directive No. 3)

GENERAL HEADQUARTERS

SUPREME COMMANDER FOR THE ALLIED POWERS

AG 091.3 (25 May 46) ESS/ST

(SCAPIN-984)

APO 500

25 May 1946


MEMORANDUM FOR: THE IMPERIAL JAPANESE GOVERNMENT.

THROUGH: Central Liaison Office, Tokyo.

SUBJECT: Amendment of SCAPIN 47, (Directive No. 3).

1. The Imperial Japanese Government is hereby advised that directive No. 3, (SCAPIN 47) dated 22 September 1945, is amended as follows:

a. Sub-paragraph 8a is deleted and the following is substituted.

"8. a. You will require all research laboratories, research institutes and similar scientific and technological organizations, excluding those medical laboratories engaged solely in clinical diagnostic work, to submit a report through your office to the Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers, which will include the following information:

(1) Name

(2) Location

(3) Ownership

(4) Description of facilities

(5) Number of employees

(6) Detailed list of all projects studied from 1 January 1940 to 1 September 1945 ; and of all projects currently being studied."

b. Sub-paragraph 8c is deleted and the following is substituted.

"8. c. You will direct said agencies to render a report as of the first day of January and July of each year to the Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers, through your office, stating in detail the projects on which their facilities and personnel have been engaged during the preceding six months and the results of such work. You will also require them to list the projects upon which they desire to work for the following six months. These reports will reach the Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers on or before the first day of February and August respectively."

c. The following sub-paragraphs are to be added:

"8. e. Except where activities are directed towards developments in the fields of warlike activities, research and teaching for the extension of scientific and technical knowledge is permitted, in such agencies as have complied with the provisions of sub-paragraphs 8a or 8c.

"8. f. Direct communication is hereby authorized between the interested staff sections of General Headquarters, Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers and the agencies of the Imperial Japanese Government to implement instructions contained in this paragraph."

FOR THE SUPREME COMMANDER:

B. M. FITCH,

Brigadier General, AGD,

Adjutant General.