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Result of Surrender of Japanese Empire

Japan · Warfare / World War, 2nd. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

2Records
1945Date range
2Named people
1Places

Chronological records

1945

Kijuro Shidehara2 September 1945

Tokyo Bay · Warfare / World War, 2nd

The Japanese Empire formally accepts Allied terms aboard USS Missouri.

Mamoru Shigemitsu2 September 1945

Tokyo Bay · Warfare / World War, 2nd

The Japanese government and armed forces accept the formal Allied surrender terms.

Names involved

Kijuro ShideharaMamoru Shigemitsu

Provenance

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