Permanent historical factsheet

Surrender of Japanese Empire

Name: Surrender of Japanese Empire – Japan factsheet records
Creator: World History Database

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

Formal surrender of the Japanese Empire aboard the USS Missouri

Mamoru Shigemitsu2 September 1945

Tokyo Bay · Warfare / World War, 2nd

Signs the surrender on behalf of the Emperor & Japanese Government on USS Missouri

Names involved

Kijuro ShideharaMamoru Shigemitsu

Provenance

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