# Surrender of Japan - USS Missouri (restored)

- By: Army Signal Corps
- Date: 1945-09-02
- Classification: Photograph
- Credit line: Naval Historical Center Photo # USA C-2719. Photograph from the Army Signal Corps Collection in the U.S. National Archives.
- Museum: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Surrender_of_Japan_-_USS_Missouri_(restored).jpg)
- Rights: Public domain
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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 Shūichi 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 Ichirō Yokoyama, Navy;

Saburo Ōta, Foreign Ministry;

Katsuo Shiba, Navy, and

Kazushi Sugita, Army.

(Identities those in second and third rows are from an annotated photograph in Naval Historical Center files.)