The OWI perished a more lingering administrative death. It was transferred to the Department of State as an operating unit under the name Interim International Information Service (IIIS) and a new Assistant Secretary of State, Mr. William Benton, took over its sponsorship. Later, under the abbreviation OIC (Office of International Information and Cultural Affairs), it was coordinated on January 1, 1946, with preexisting State department offices and with certain leftovers from the Office of Inter-American Affairs (OIAA). It retained the global broadcasts on a limited budget; it still served the surviving outposts, which were being integrated with diplomatic and consular offices overseas; and for Korea, Japan, Germany, Austria, and Venezia Giulia, it acted as the supplying service for the Military Government information programs in those areas. The Bureau of the Budget took over limited domestic functions when the OWI passed out of independent existence on 31 August 1945.
=The _Joho Kyoku_.= Comparison of this United States system with the Japanese Board of Information (_Joho Kyoku_), as outlined in chart VIII, shows the difference between integrated and disparate systems. The Japanese developed a close-knit system which combined public relations of both army and navy, all domestic government publishing, complete control of book-publishing, magazines, press, radio, and film, propaganda intelligence and over-all psychological warfare. The progress of an item through the Japanese psychological warfare system may look intricate when followed on the chart, but it was in fact much less intricate than the comparable American processing of an item.
+----------------------------------+ +----------------------+ | SECRETARIAT | | BOARD OF INFORMATION | | SOSAI-KAMBO | | JOHO KYOKU | | | | | |INVESTIGATION OFFICE SHINGISHITSU +---------+ PRESIDENT | | PLANS INFORMATION AND PROPAGANDA | | VICE PRESIDENT | | SECRETARIAL SECTION - HISHO-KA | | COUNCIL MEMBERS | | DIRECTOR | +-----------+----------+ | PROTOCOL SECTION - BUSHO-KA | | | DIRECTOR | | | ACCOUNTS SECTION - KAIKEI-KA | | | | | |WARTIME DATA OFFICE - | | | SENJI SHIRYOSHITSU | | | 1st SECTION - DOMESTIC AFFAIRS | | | 2nd SECTION - FOREIGN AFFAIRS | | +----------------------------------+ | | +-------------------------+-------------------+-----+ | | | +----------+--------+ +-------------+-------------+ +---------+---------+ | FIRST DIVISION | | SECOND DIVISION | | THIRD DIVISION | | DAIICHI-BU | | DAINI-BU | | DAISAN-BU | | | | | | | | DIRECTOR | | DIRECTOR | | DIRECTOR | | VICE DIRECTOR | | | | | | | |1st SECTION - DIRECTOR | |1st SECTION - | |1st SECTION - | | GOVERNMENT ANNOUNCEMENTS,| | DIRECTOR | | DIRECTOR | | NEWSPAPER COMMUNICATIONS,| | REPORTS FOREIGN | | WAR GUIDANCE AND | | EXPOSITIONS, EXHIBITIONS | | DEVELOPMENTS; | | PROPAGANDA | | | | NEWS FROM FOREIGN| | PLANNING | |2nd SECTION - DIRECTOR | | NEWSPAPERS, | | | | RADIO BRODCASTS, MOTION | | DIRECTS OVERSEAS | |2nd SECTION - CHIEF| | PICTURES, DRAMA, MUSIC, | | BROADCASTS | | ENFORCEMENT OF | | ETC. | | | | PLANNING AND | | | |2nd SECTION - | | PUBLIC RELATIONS | |3rd SECTION - DIRECTOR | | DIRECTOR | | CONTROL | | MAGAZINE PUBLICATIONS, | | OVERSEAS CULTURAL| +-------------------+ | ART WORK, PHOTOGRAPHS | | WORK AND | | | | PROPAGANDA | | EDITORIAL OFFICE - CHIEF | +-------------------+ | PUBLISH WEEKLY NEWS | | AND PICTORIAL REVIEWS. | | | |4th SECTION - DIRECTOR | | CENSORSHIP | +-------------+-------------+ | | +------+------+ | OUTPUT | +-------------+