Phil in SF quoted Judgment at Tokyo by Gary J. Bass
In the weeks after Japan finally surrendered to the Allies to end World War II, …
He worked on imperial rescripts sanctifying battles in Burma and the Coral Sea.
— Judgment at Tokyo by Gary J. Bass (Page 1,420)
new word: rescript
an official edict or announcement
(the word has been used numerous times in the book, but i thought it was a word peculiar to how Japanese government worked. finally occurred to me to look it up after the 73rd use.)