EVENT INFORMATION

2
Sèptèmber
1945

Japan signs the formal instrument of surrender

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Japanese representatives signed the Instrument of Surrender aboard the USS Missouri, formally ending the war. The signing established Allied occupation authority over Japan and ordered Japanese forces across Asia to lay down arms. In Korea, Vietnam, Indonesia, and elsewhere, the end of Japanese rule created openings for independence claims while former European empires sought to return.

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Personanan den e suseso aki

Mamoru Shigemitsu

Yoshijiro Umezu

Douglas MacArthur

representatives of Allied nations

Organisashonnan den e Evento aki

Imperial Japan

Allied Powers

Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers