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	Japanese Instrument of Surrender - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The date is sometimes known as Victory over Japan Day, although that designation is more frequently used to refer to the date of Emperor Hirohito's announcement of the acceptance of the terms of the Potsdam Declaration on August 15.
		Japanese Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu signs the Instrument of Surrender on behalf of the Japanese Government.
		It was first signed by Japanese foreign minister Mamoru Shigemitsu "By Command and on behalf of the Emperor of Japan and the Japanese Government" and then Gen. Yoshijiro Umezu "By Command and on behalf of the Japanese Imperial General Headquarters" at 9:04 a.m.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Japanese_Instrument_of_Surrender_(1945) (309 words)

	Shigemitsu Mamoru -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Japanese diplomat who served as minister of foreign affairs in various cabinets and was one of the signers of Japan's surrender to the Allies at the end of World War II.
		Shigemitsu, a graduate of Tokyo University, joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1911.
		More results on "Shigemitsu Mamoru" when you join.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9067356?source=RSSOTD (423 words)

	State Department Report Reveals Facts About "Allison-Shigemitsu Agreement"
		Shigemitsu in his reply to the U.S. Embassy assurred that "nothing in the discussions in the Diet commits the US Government to any particular course of action."
		In the present climate of domestic opinion, for example, the Japanese Government could not publicly agree to storage by US forces of nuclear weapons in Japan and still retain office.
		In defending this policy, Foreign Minister Shigemitsu on June 27, 1955, further assured the Diet that he had obtained on May 31, 1955 and "understanding" from Ambassador Allison that US forves were not "in possession of nuclear weapons in Japan" and that the US intended to seek Japanese consent to their introduction.
	www.nautilus.org /archives/library/security/foia/StateOIR57.html (501 words)

	Playing with my food, and other things...
		I’d originally erred in identifying Mamoru Shigemitsu as Toshikazu Kase using the top hat and cane as identifiers.
		Fortunately, the color photo identified all the member of the surrender party, so I didn’t have to guess which of the two remaining guys in top hats held the cane in the photo referenced by the NYT (which I have been unable to locate so far).
		Holding the cane of then-Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu, Mr.
	blogs.salon.com /0001444/2003/11/08.html (775 words)

	ZNet \| Japan \| Japan-Russia Dispute Over Northern Territories Highlights Flawed Diplomacy
		He blames conservatives in the Foreign Ministry, and in particular ultraconservative Foreign Minister Shigemitsu Mamoru, for seeking deliberately to sabotage efforts by then-Prime Minister Hatoyama Ichiro for better relations with Moscow.
		Shigemitsu returned to Tokyo and the talks could only be revived by Hatoyama himself visiting Moscow a month later.
		Once again there was impasse over territory claims, but both sides agreed on a Joint Declaration to restore diplomatic relations and to hold further talks on a peace treaty, with the promise of the Habomais and Shikotan to be returned if and when the treaty was signed.
	www.zmag.org /content/print_article.cfm?itemID=7591§ionID=17 (1981 words)

	Press-Telegram - News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The first person to sign the surrender would be Japan's foreign minister, Mamoru Shigemitsu.
		As Shigemitsu sat down, a sound cracked the near silence on the Missouri's quarter deck.
		Seven months after the surrender, Shigemitsu, the foreign minister, was arrested.
	www.pasadenastarnews.com /Stories/0,1413,204~21474~3036654,00.html (641 words)

	The Japan Times Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		He also notes how the shift in position coincided with a meeting in Washington between Shigemitsu and the bitterly anticommunist Dulles, who, he says, also wanted to block any territorial solution with Japan.
		Moscow predictably rejected the belated Etorofu-Kunashiri claim and the talks spluttered out, only to be revived by Shigemitsu himself, accompanied by Matsumoto, arriving in Moscow in July 29, 1956, for further talks, and creating yet another extraordinary volte-face also conveniently ignored by the Foreign Ministry materials.
		Shigemitsu was immediately summoned to London for talks on the 1956 Suez Canal crisis and on Aug. 19 met Dulles again.
	www.japantimes.co.jp /cgi-bin/geted.pl5?eo20050324gc.htm (1835 words)

	Boston.com / News / Boston Globe / Obituaries / Carl Mydans, 97; his enduring images helped define 20th century
		Mydans captured the Japanese surrender aboard the battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay.
		He attained a clear position atop a 40mm gun turret that gave him a perfect view of the Japanese foreign minister, Shigemitsu Mamoru.
		"I watched Shigemitsu limp forward, his wooden leg tapping out his progress in the silence," he told the Christian Science Monitor in 1995.
	www.boston.com /news/globe/obituaries/articles/2004/08/18/carl_mydans_97_celebrated_chronicler_of_20th_century_1092804244?pg=2 (437 words)

	WWII Photographs
		Shigemitsu's credentials bear the signature of the Emperor Hirohito.
		The Foreign Minister, Mamoru Shigemitsu, signs the Allied Copy of the Instrument of Surrender in a standing position.
		This photograph was taken simultaneously with the photograph number 6 from behind the surrender table.
	www.freedomdocuments.com /fithian.html (704 words)

	HyperWar: IMTFE [Annex A-6]
		HIROTA, HOSHINO, ITAGAKI, KIDO, MATSUOKA, MUTO, NAGANO, SHIGEMITSU and TOJO, on or about the 22nd September, 1940, initiated a war of aggression and a war in violation of international law, treaties, agreements and assurances, against the Republic of France.
		The Defendants ARAKI, DOHIHARA, HATA, HIRANUMA, HIROTA, HOSHINO, ITAGAKI, KIDO, MATSUOKA, MATSUI, SHIGEMITSU, and SUZUKI, during July and August 1938, initiated a war of aggression and a war in violation of international law, treaties, agreements and assurances by attacking the Union of Soviet Socialists Republics in the area of Lake Khasan.
		The Defendants ARAKI, DOHIHARA, HIRANUMA, HIROTA, HOSHINO, ITAGAKI, KIDO, MATSUOKA, MUTO, NAGANO, SHIGEMITSU and TOJO, on and after the 22nd September, 1940, waged a war of aggression and a war in violation of international law, treaties, agreements and assurances against the Republic of France.
	www.ibiblio.org /hyperwar/PTO/IMTFE/IMTFE-A6.html (3509 words)

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		Jonathon Wainwright, who had taken command of the forces in the Philippines upon MacArthur's departure and had been recently freed from a Japanese POW camp in Manchuria.
		Shigemitsu would be found guilty of war crimes and sentenced to seven years in prison subsequent to the surrender.
		The grand irony is that he had fought for concessions on the Japanese side in order to secure an early peace.
	www.msd2d.com /newsletter/NT/NT090204.htm (575 words)

	JPRI Occasional Paper No. 17
		Concurrently the government paid their back salaries and restored their pensions-- on the grounds that they had not been tried under Japanese domestic law and therefore should not be treated as ordinary, standard, home-style criminals.
		Neither had prison dulled his lively sense of himself as the emperor's loyal servant, or his belief that the emperor lay at the interstices of power and could still be used to serve the purposes of his ministers just as under the old constitution.
		In late August 1955, with Nikita Khrushchev in power and seeking a peace treaty with Japan, Hirohito spoke with Shigemitsu at his mansion in Nasu, Tochigi prefecture, and, according to Shigemitsu, stressed "the need to be friendly with the United States and hostile to communism.
	www.jpri.org /publications/occasionalpapers/op17.html (5991 words)

	Pacific Affairs: A historical reevaluation of America's role in the Kuril Islands dispute (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		By July 1956 Japan's new plenipotentiary, Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu, had abandoned Japan's claims on Sakhalin and even suggested during a visit to Moscow that he would accept a peace treaty following the return of only two of the disputed islands, the Habomais and Shikotan.
		As recently as 1996, a leading scholar at Russia's Institute of the Far East, A. Markov, wrote that "in a meeting with Foreign Minister Shigemitsu, the head of the Japanese delegation at the negotiations in London, U.S. Secretary of State J. Dulles demanded that [Shigemitsu] reject a settlement of the territorial problem with the USSR.
		Although the State Department documents which detail Dulles's actual intentions were published in 1991 in the collection entitled Foreign Relations of the United States, 1955-1957: Japan, they have had little impact on this conviction among Russian scholars.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3680/is_199901/ai_n8840668/pg_3 (1031 words)

	WWII Trials of Japanese War Criminals 'In Doubt' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Kaya was sentenced to life imprisonment but paroled in 1955, and went on to serve as Prime Minister Hayato Ikeda's justice minister.
		Also included in the 11 was former Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu, who was sentenced to imprisonment but paroled in 1950 and later served as Prime Minister Ichiro Hatoyama's foreign minister.
		One of the underlying factors preventing the issue of the "Class-A war criminals" from fading is the lingering doubt about the nature of the Tokyo Trial itself.
	watchingamerica.com /dailyyomiuri000002.html (1220 words)

	Peace in the Pacific - The End of World War II \| 60 Years
		ABOVE: General Douglas MacArthur, with representatives of the Allied powers behind him, reads his speech calling for an end to war and "a world dedicated to the dignity of man." ABOVE RIGHT: Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz signs the surrender documents for the United States.
		BELOW: Japanese Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu and General Yoshijiro Umezu, at the surrender ceremony.
		Practice runs were conducted, using sailors with mop handles strapped to their legs to mimic the wooden leg of the Japanese emperor's representative, Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu (in top hat, with cane in photo above).
	the.honoluluadvertiser.com /peaceinthepacific/september2 (636 words)

	Japanese Instrument of Surrender - TheBestLinks.com - Kingdom of the Netherlands, Republic of China, September 2, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Japanese Instrument of Surrender, Kingdom of the Netherlands, Republic of China...
		Japanese Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu signs the Instrument of Surrender on behalf of the Japanese Government, on board USS Missouri, September 2, 1945
		The Instrument of Surrender of Japan is the armistice ending World War 2.
	www.thebestlinks.com /Japanese_Instrument_of_Surrender.html (589 words)

	Honolulu Star-Bulletin Local News
		It did, and Yukimura -- a nisei from Kauai -- and two mainland Japanese Americans were granted the rare privilege of being on the deck of the USS Missouri when Japanese Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu signed the formal documents of surrender in Tokyo Bay on Sept. 2, 1945.
		(Japan Foreign Minister Mamoru) Shigemitsu was lame and had to walk with a cane and with the help of an aide."
		The USS Missouri (BB-63) was the last battleship built to completion, even though the USS Wisconsin had a higher hull number (BB-64) and construction was started nearly three weeks after Missouri's keel was laid.
	starbulletin.com /98/06/15/news/story1.html (1786 words)

	1945 - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		End of August - Chinese Civil War: Mao Zedong and Chiang Kai-shek meet in Chongqing to discuss an end to hostilities between the Communists and the Nationalists.
		September 2 - World War II ends: The final official surrender of Japan was accepted by General Douglas MacArthur and Admiral Chester Nimitz from a delegation led by Mamoru Shigemitsu, aboard the battleship Missouri in Tokyo Bay.
		But in Japan August 14 is well recognized as the day the Pacific War ended.
	open-encyclopedia.com /1945 (3721 words)

	The World War II Photo CD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Two days later Britain and France declared war against Germany and the Second World War was underway.
		WWII officially ended on September 2, 1945, when the prime minister of Japan, Mamoru Shigemitsu, signed the formal instrument of surrender on the deck of the U.S.S. Missouri in Tokyo Bay.
		During the six years between the invasion of Poland and the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the world was witness to the most destructive war in history.
	www.thehistorycd.com /wartime/worldwar2/ww2 (322 words)

	untitled (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		THE JAPANESE SURRENDER DOCUMENTS - WWII: TRANSLATION of Foreign Minister Shiegemitsu's credentials TRANSLATION H I R O H I T O, By the Grace of Heaven, Emperor of Japan, seated on the Throne occupied by the same Dynasty changeless through ages eternal, To all who these Presents shall come, Greeting!
		We do hereby authorise Mamoru Shigemitsu, Zyosanmi, First Class of the Imperial Order of the Rising Sun to attach his signature by command and in behalf of Ourselves and Our Government unto the Instrument of Surrender which is required by the Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers to be signed.
		In witness whereof, We have hereunto set Our signature and caused the Great Seal of the Empire to be affixed.
	www.rangenet.com /roadkill/documents/js.html (1663 words)

	The 20th Century (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		On September 2, 1945, Japanese and Allied leaders gathered aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay to sign the document of surrender.
		Japanese foreign minister Shigemitsu Mamoru signed the document on behalf of Japan, and Gen. Douglas MacArthur and Adm. Chester Nimitz were among those representing the Allies.
		World War II, at long last, had ended.
	www.cnn.com /SPECIALS/1999/century/episodes/04/timelines/war/infoboxes/jap-surr.html (101 words)

	Japan and Her Destiny: My Struggle for Peace - Questia Online Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Book by F. Piggott, Mamoru Shigemitsu, Oswald White; Dutton, 1958
		Contributors: F. Piggott - editor, Mamoru Shigemitsu - author, Oswald White - transltr.
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	www.questia.com /PM.qst?a=o&d=3882112 (654 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The day that Japanese foreign minister, Mamoru Shigemitsu, boarded the battleship USS Missouri to surrender his nation to General Douglas MacArthur, I boarded a shabby North Shore Line train near Fort Sheridan and headed for Chicago and civilian life.
		I had just been discharged from the U.S. Army Air Corps.
		But now these many years later, I still miss the characters from that shabby fourth-floor newsroom on Wacker Drive.
	members.core.com /A0/BD/jackstar/press.html (3302 words)

	WORLD WAR II: A Selected List of References (Main Reading Room, Library of Congress)
		Two days later Britain and France declared war against Germany.
		It officially ended on September 2, 1945, when Mamoru Shigemitsu, foreign minister of Japan, signed the formal instrument of surrender on the deck of the U.S.S. Missouri in Tokyo Bay.
		In those six years between the invasion of Poland and the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the world was caught in the most destructive war in history.
	www.loc.gov /rr/main/gopher/WWII_bib.html (6036 words)

	CNN.com - Brother of Fuji Xerox chairman dies - Mar. 9, 2003
		Kobayashi ran a plastic material wholesale company named Atlas, which had some business dealings with Fuji Xerox, according to investigators.
		His wife Hanako was a daughter of the late former Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu.
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	cnn.com /2003/BUSINESS/asia/03/09/japan.kobayashi (211 words)

	Documents
		We do hereby authorise Mamoru Shigemitsu, Zyosanmi, First
		Class of the Imperial Order of the Rising Sun to attach his
		quarters signed by Foreign Minister Mamouru Shigemitsu by com-
	www.multied.com /HistoricalDocuments/JapsSurrenderDocs.html (2912 words)

	Historical Text Archive: Articles: Japanese Surrender Documents
		To all who these Presents shall come, Greeting!
		Signed at TOKYO BAY, JAPAN at 0904 I on the SECOND day of SEPTEMBER, 1945
		MAMORU SHIGMITSU By Command and in behalf of the Emperor of Japan and the Japanese Government
	www.historicaltextarchive.com /sections.php?op=viewarticle&artid=203 (2182 words)

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