Evening star., 1945-08-27
Jap Parliament DELAYS
Session 10 Conform 10
New Surrender Date
By the Associated Press.


Japan's radio broadcasts today
announced postponement of its
extraordinary Diet session to CO.
incide with surrender delays and
reported a continuing series of
other home front and Foreign
Office changes to adapt the ma
ton to its new role-defeat.
The two-day extraordinary session
will begin September 4 instead of
September 2, Domei news agency
said. Also announced was obolition
of Japan's Greater East Asia Minis
try-the wartime consolidator Of
Asiatic conquest. The ministry will
be incorporated in the Foreign Min
istry.
Liaison Office Ready.
Other surrender preparations dis
closed by Tokyo broadcasts included: !:
A central liaison Office, to deal
with Allied occupation authorities,
is now ready to function, with Kat
Suo Okazah as director general and
Katsuhiro Marta, Ryuji Takeuchi,
Saburo Ota and Eli Wajima as
directors. The Office is intended to
handle every occupation problem
from general affairs to reparations
and release of prisoners.
The japanese government today
requested Gen. MacArthur's per-
mission to resume suspended ferry
service between Japan and Korea,
to enable Koreans and Japanese to
return to their respective homes.
Implying that there are huge crowds
waiting at the two terminal points,
the broadcast described scarcity of
food and difficulty in maintenance
of order"
Rail transportation, another
broadcast said, will be restored to
prewar levels by the end of the
year. Restoration Of all communi-
cations facilities and rebuilding of
destroyed homes of railway workers
are expected to be completed by the
end Of November, the Japanese
language broadcast beamed to
America reported.
Sunday Work Discontinued.
Japan also notified Gen. Mac
Arthur that not all her unarmed
planes used in connection with sur
render activities can be white
painted. Some army planes will
carry only the prescribed green
crosses and trail red streamers, the
message said.
On the home front, Japan relaxed
a bit; government officials and en-
ployes will no longer work on Sum-
days, Domei news agency said.
Throughout the war, all government
ofdces had worked seven days a week
by decision of the TOTO cabinet.
Hidezo Toyama, son of the late
Mitsuru Toyama, nationalist leader,
sounded the home front keynote in
another broadcast when he urged
japanese to "remold themselves"
and build the country on a new
basis. Domei reported that he told
his domestic broadcast listeners that
they have only themselves to blame
Tor their defeat.
The Nippon Times of Tokyo was
quoted as urging Japan's people to
dissipate their burden of sorrow"
and hope for "a truly good and bet
ter world" The editorial said. how
ever, that the victors have a moral
responsibility to eliminate racial dis
elimination and to afford "all men
equal opportunities and rights"
Food Program Set Up.
Battling her war-aggravated food
shortage, Japan has set up six
point agricultural program which
experts hope will make the nation
self SUFFICIENT, Domei said -.,
Many millions released from mill
tary service and from war industries
must be utilized in agriculture or the
food program will end in complete
failure" the dispatch related. The
six-point program experts have out
lined:
Coordination Of all those return
ing to farms; industrialization
of rural communities; intensive"
farming, with a two-crop system
where possible: increase of land in
cultivation; improvement of fertil-
ity, and improvements of irrigation
Japan's wartime scientific con-
sulting station has now completed
its work for the time being" another
Domei dispatch reported, and has
been renamed "the Nippon scientific
and consulting station"