Japanese Emissaries at the Surrender of Japan, 1945.

Photograph showing Foreign Minister Shigemitsu (on left) and General Yoshi Umezu (on right), the Japanese signatories of the formal surrender of the Japanese Empire, on board USS 'Missouri', 2nd September 1945. Date: 1945

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1945/9/02 00:00:00

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