Image:Surrender of Japan - USS Missouri.jpg

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Photo #: USA C-2719 (Color)

Surrender of Japan, Tokyo Bay, 2 September 1945

Japanese representatives on board USS Missouri (BB-63) during the surrender ceremonies, 2 September 1945.

Standing in front are: Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu (wearing top hat) and General Yoshijiro Umezu, Chief of the Army General Staff.

Behind them are three representatives each of the Foreign Ministry, the Army and the Navy. They include, in middle row, left to right:

• Major General Yatsuji Nagai, Army;
• Katsuo Okazaki, Foreign Ministry;
• Rear Admiral Tadatoshi Tomioka, Navy;
• Toshikazu Kase, Foreign Ministry, and
• Lieutenant General Suichi Miyakazi, Army.

In the back row, left to right (not all are visible):

• Rear Admiral Ichiro Yokoyama, Navy;
• Saburo Ota, Foreign Ministry;
• Saburo Ota, Navy, and
• Kaziyi Sugita, Army.
• (Identities those in second and third rows are from an annotated photograph in Naval Historical Center files.)

Photograph from the Army Signal Corps Collection in the U.S. National Archives.

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