Japanese delegation, includ. Mamoru Shigemitsu (top hat, cane) & Gen. Yoshijiro Umezu (immediately L of Shigemitsu), face Gen. Douglas MacArthur (at mic) & Allied officers during the official, unconditional surrender of Japan, held aboard the US battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay. (Allies, front row, L-R: Chester A. Nimitz, Chinese Gen. Hsu Yung-Chang, British Adm. Bruce Fraser, Russian Lt. Gen. Kuzma N. Derevyanko, Australian Gen. Thomas Blamey, Canadian Col. L. Moore Cosgrave, French Gen. Jacques LeClerc, Dutch Adm. Conrad Helfrich, New Zealand Vice Marshal L.M. Isitt, Lt. Gen. R.K. Sutherland & Gen. Jonathan Wainwright.