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Surrender of Japan, Tokyo Bay, 2 September 1945: Representatives of the Empire of Japan on board USS Missouri (BB-63) during the surrender ceremonies.

Standing in front are:

Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu (wearing top hat) and General Yoshijirō 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:

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

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

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

Date

2 September 1945

Source

Naval Historical Center Photo # USA C-2719. Photograph from the Army Signal Corps Collection in the U.S. National Archives.

Author

Army Signal Corps

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	22:27, 4 September 2007	740 × 588 (86 KB)	Raul654	Copied from enwiki {{PD-USGov-Military-Army}} 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:

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