Although they had been notified of the surrender of Japan, the Army and Navy were still deployed at home and abroad, and so the first order of business of the Higashikuninomiya Cabinet was to disarm the Japanese military, which had been demanded by the Allied Nations.
日本の降伏が告知されたものの依然として陸海軍は内外に展開しており、東久邇宮内閣の第一の仕事は連合国の求める日本軍の武装解除であった。