Document sent on June 25, 1946 from the acting Secretary of State to the Political Adviser to the Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers. Attached were a memo titled "Japanese in Brazil" and an urgent report to the Department of State from the Consul General in São Paulo dated May 21. The urgent report from the Consul General in São Paulo included a list of each 52 Japanese residents in Japan and in Brazil (omitted here) requesting the GHQ/SCAP to notify the listed Japanese persons of the purpose and facilitate correspondence.
The preparations to ship postcards was completed in Japan on September 10 after the reopening of the postal service, the GHQ/SCAP Foreign Section, however, chose 29 postcards from those cards to be shipped not by surface mail but by airmail. (Of the 52 cards the remaining 23 cards arrived at the Swedish Consulate in São Paulo on December 22 (according to "the Paurisuta Shimbun (Paulista Newspaper)" of January 1, 1947) , however the arrival date of these 29 cards is unknown.)
