80 years ago today (September 2, 1945) the Empire of Japan officially surrendered to the Allies (the United States, China, the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, Australia, Canada, France, the Netherlands and New Zealand) on the deck of the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay, Japan ending World War 2.
The Surrender Ceremony lasted 23
minutes and was broadcast by radio across the World.
Japanese Foreign Minister Mamoru
Shigemitsu signed the Instrument of Surrender on behalf of the Japanese
Government.
American General of the Army
Douglas MacArthur, the Commander in the Southwest Pacific and Supreme Commander
for the Allied Powers, accepted the surrender on behalf of the Allied Powers
and signed in his capacity as Supreme Commander.
The Allied Copy of the Instrument
is at the United States National Archives Building in Washington, D.C.
The Japanese copy is at the
Diplomatic Archives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan in Tokyo, and
was last publicly displayed in 2015, as part of an exhibition marking the 70th Anniversary
of the signing.
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