Investiture of Court ranks and bestowal of orders to those who had died in a war' was approved during the Hayato IKEDA's cabinet in 1963, and the bestowing a rank and conferment of a decoration to those who died while serving in World War II resumed.
昭和39年（1963年）、池田勇人内閣において「戦没者に対する叙位叙勲について」が閣議決定され、第二次世界大戦の戦死者に対する叙位叙勲が復活する。