Aboard the USS Missouri, Japanese Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu and Gen. Yoshijiro Umezu signed the Instrument of Surrender. The two men were later convicted of war crimes. Gen. Douglas ...

He said the global standard for the official end of the war is Sept. 2, 1945, when Japan signed the instrument of surrender. Japan’s observance of the war’s end in August, he said, is the ...

In July 1945, China, the US and the UK issued the Potsdam Proclamation or the Proclamation Defining Terms for Japanese Surrender, a statement which called for the surrender of all Japanese armed ...