Fonds/Series
Records of Procurement Request (supply items, service duties, construction work, real estate)
Hierarchy
- Title
- Records of Procurement Request (supply items, service duties, construction work, real estate)
- Date
- 1946-1952
- Level of Description
- series
- Extent
- ３４９件||349 items
- Creator
- Special Procurement Agency Tokyo Procurement Bureau etc.
- Administrative / Biographical History
- In September 1947, the Special Procurement Agency was set-up to carry on the operations of the Postwar Liaison Central Administration Bureau Construction Department and War Damage Reconstruction Unit Special Construction Bureau. In June 1949 the Special Procurement Agency became an external bureau of the Prime Minister's Office, changing its name to Procurement Agency in April 1952. The Procurement Agency was moved to an external bureau of the Defense Agency in August 1958, and in November 1962, merged with the Department of Construction of the Defense Agency and was reorganized into the Defense Facilities Administration Agency.
- Source of Transfer or Acquisition
- Transferred from the Defense Facilities Administration Agency General Affairs Department General Affairs Division in 1998
- Scope and Content
- Records consist mostly of files of Procurement Documents that the Allied Forces submitted to the Japanese government during the Special Procurement Agency administration. All documents are official request forms written in English. The items of the Procurement Document Form include: 1) Product item number, 2) Requested product item name, 3) Unit, 4) Quantity, 5) Name of the requesting party, 6) Desired delivery date. The Procurement Document files contain 1) 173 volumes of supply items, 2) 105 volumes of service duties, 3) 21 volumes relating to construction work, 4) 47 volumes on real estate property, etc.
- Conditions Governing Reproduction
- Image browsing is possible on the Internet
- Language
- English
- Publication Note
- Defense Facilities Administration Agency History Compilations Committee ed., "History of Defense Facilities Administration Agency," Volume 1, Defense Facilities Administration Agency General Affairs Department General Affairs Division, 1973.
https://www.digital.archives.go.jp/fonds/en/2309041
[Fonds/Series] "Records of Procurement Request (supply items, service duties, construction work, real estate)", National Archives of Japan Digital Archive, https://www.digital.archives.go.jp/fonds/en/2309041（accessed 2026-04-12）
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