VJ Day / surrender of Japan
1945 · Event
Japan announces acceptance of unconditional surrender; formal signing follows aboard USS Missouri on 2 September.
On these timelines: Japan, Master, World War II
More from Japan
- Meiji Restoration (1868)
- Edo period (1603)
- Commodore Perry opens Japan (1853)
- Tokugawa Ieyasu (1543)
- Battle of Sekigahara (1600)
- Kamakura shogunate established (1192)
- Oda Nobunaga (1534)
- Toyotomi Hideyoshi unifies Japan (1590)
Around 1945
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- World War II (1939)
- The Holocaust (1941)
- Founding of the State of Israel (1948)
- Cold War (1947)
- Korean War (1950)
- D-Day (Operation Overlord) (1944)
- Pop music: the 1950s (1950)
- Pop music: the 1940s (1940)
- Attack on Pearl Harbor (1941)