Historians often suggest that America’s super-weapon forced Hirohito to surrender in 1945. Look closer, and the truth is more ...

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 ...

On Sept. 2 that year, Japanese government representatives signed the Japanese Instrument of Surrender aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay in a diplomatic action that formally ended the war.

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 ...