August 15, 1945. Exactly today, Japan, through Emperor Hirohito’s nationwide announcement via radio, declared its surrender to the Allied Forces, marking the official ending of World War II.
Formal surrender ceremony by Japan on board the USS MIssouri in Tokyo.
Japan was the last country among the Axis Powers (that included Italy and Germany) to surrender. The Japanese’s formal surrender took place in a on board the battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay on September 2, 1945.
Japan’s surrender also became known in history as Victory Over Japan Day or V-J Day.
Upon Emperor Hirohito’s announcement via radio, some Japanese soldiers, who were devastated upon learning the news, committed suicide while more than 100 American prisoners of war were executed.
During the Second World War, Japan wreaked havoc in some parts of Asia including, China, Korea and the Philippines.
The two atomic bombs dropped consecutively in Hiroshima and Nagasaki on 1945 proved to be the final straw that forced Japan to surrender.
Source: www.en.wikipedia.org