While the cabinet carried out as its main duty the general postwar settlements, including the formal signing of the Instrument of Surrender, disarmament, breaking up of the military authorities and democratization, it did not consider a large-scale reform of the old political system.
降伏文書の調印、武装解除・軍部解体、民主化など、敗戦処理全般を主たる任務としてこなしたが、一方で旧来の政治体制の大規模な変革までは考えていなかった。