On August 15, 1945, the Japanese Emperor officially announced his unconditional surrender, accepting the Potsdam Proclamation proposed by the Allies, and the Japanese surrender ceremony marking the official end of World War II on September 2 was held on the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay.
Incidentally, there is a story about why the surrender ceremony was held on a warship, MacArthur represented the Army, and Nimitz believed that the Navy was the key to winning World War II, and it was unfair to have MacArthur sign it, so the compromise was to let the five-star admiral of the Army be surrendered on the Navy's warship. At 8:30 a.m. on September 2, representatives of the Allied powers arrived on the USS Missouri from Yokohama on warships, and MacArthur, as the Supreme Commander of the United States on behalf of the Allies, did not arrive until 8:50 a.m.
After MacArthur arrived, the Japanese delegation led by Foreign Minister Mitsuru Aoi Umezu Yoshijiro walked to the signing table one after another, and at 9 a.m., MacArthur stepped out of the rest cabin, at this time the deck of the Missouri was full of people, who all witnessed this historic moment, and then MacArthur delivered a brief speech, and Aoi Shigemitsu and Umezu Mijiro officially signed on behalf of the Japanese government and the military department.
After the Japanese representative signed, MacArthur asked Lieutenant General Wainwright of the American Army and Lieutenant General Percival of the British Army to sign it, and the two generals had just been rescued from the Japanese centralized camp, so that the former prisoners of war stood behind MacArthur, which was a great shame for the Japanese.
According to sources, MacArthur signed the word "Doug" with the first pen, then gave the pen to Wainwright, signed "Russ" with the second pen to Parsibal, the third pen signed "MacArthur" and gave it to the American Archives, the fourth pen signed the "Allied Commander" to West Point, and the fifth pen signed the year, month, and day to his wife, Faircross.
After MacArthur signed, Nimitz signed his name as a naval representative, followed by a Chinese representative, and when the signing ceremony ended, it was exactly 9:18, which was such a difficult time for China. From MacArthur's boarding of the ship to the arrangement of the signing ceremony to the final signing, MacArthur was always showing his victory posture, and all he did was to humiliate the losers in the war. Although the Japanese representative was not happy, he was also helpless, and the reason for this embarrassing situation was entirely self-inflicted.