Surrender of Japan - USS Missouri

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.)