Kantaro Suzuki9 August 1945
Hirohito's intervention breaks the leadership deadlock and commits Japan to surrender.
Japan · Warfare / World War, 2nd. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.
Hirohito's intervention breaks the leadership deadlock and commits Japan to surrender.
The emperor publicly announces Japan's decision to surrender.
The imperial broadcast informs the Japanese population that the war will end through surrender.
Japanese representatives receive the detailed Allied procedures for implementing surrender.
The formal ceremony aboard USS Missouri legally records Japan's capitulation.
Japan accepts Allied authority and ends national military resistance.
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