What the records say
- When
- 2 Sep 1945
- Kind
- Treaty
- Coordinates
- 35.35° N, 139.76° E
- Description
- end of World War II, 2 September 1945
Surrender of Japan
End of World War II
The surrender of the Empire of Japan in World War II was announced by Emperor Hirohito on 15 August and formally signed on 2 September 1945, ending the war. By the end of July 1945, the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) was incapable of conducting major operations and an Allied invasion of Japan was imminent.
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- Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “a bordo del acorazado Misuri ―en el marco de la Segunda Guerra Mundial―, el Gobierno de Japón firma su rendición”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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