On this episode of 70 seconds, 70 years, we will tune in to when Japan signed official documents to surrender in the Second World War.
On September second, nineteen-forty-five, years of war and struggle all ended on an American battleship called the USS Missouri. Representatives of Japan and the Allies came face to face on the deck of the American naval ship.
At nine a.m., General Douglas MacArthur announced that representatives from Japan would sign a document to officially surrender. After Japanese Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu put his name on the paper, General Xu Yongchang from China, also signed the paper, with other representatives from the Allies. That officially marked the end of the World War Two.
The eight-year War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, cost more than 21 million Chinese lives, finally ended. Japan’s death toll reached around two million.
I’m Wang Yizhi with CCTV NEWS. See you next time.
