JAPANESE DEMOBILISATION
. NOT COMPLETE TILL 1949 TOKIO. October 17. The Minister of War, Mr Shimomura, told the Cabmet that the schedule for repatriating Japanese troops from overseas was as follows: — 877,000 from North Korea, Manchuria., Sakhalin, and the Kuriles until August 1948; 1,086,000 from North and South China, until April, 1948; an unspecified number from the Philippines until February, 1947; 202.000 from Formosa until August, 1949; 199,000 from New Guinea and South-west Pacific, excluding the (Rabaul area, until March, 1949. The Allied Command limited the amount of yen wluch repatriated Japanese civilians may bring home to 1,000. Officers may bring 500 and other ranks 200. The Government is holding sums in excess of these amounts pending further Allied orders'. Koreans and Chinese going home are limited to 1,000 yen. Five hundred members of the new Nippon Working Masses Party paraded past the Imperial Palace carrying banners asking General MacArthur to order the Japanese Government to give the people more bread. The procession distributed handbills calling for the mass suicide of the former ruling classes.
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Evening Star, Issue 25617, 18 October 1945, Page 5
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174JAPANESE DEMOBILISATION Evening Star, Issue 25617, 18 October 1945, Page 5
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