{"id":22368,"date":"2020-09-03T13:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-03T04:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/03\/from-the-archive-1945-japan-signs-the-terms-of-surrender"},"modified":"2020-09-03T13:30:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-03T04:30:00","slug":"from-the-archive-japan-signs-the-terms-of-surrender-3-september-1945","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=22368","title":{"rendered":"From the archive: Japan signs the terms of surrender \u2013\u00a0 3 September 1945"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>3 September 1945<\/strong>: With the signing on the USS Missouri, the second world war is now officially over. Full occupation of Japan is about to begin<\/p>\n<p>The Japanese signed the terms of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2018\/aug\/15\/world-peace-at-last-japan-surrenders-archive-1945\">surrender<\/a> in the American battleship Missouri early yesterday and the war is now officially over. The full occupation of Japan, however, is only just beginning.<\/p>\n<p> <span>Related: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/15\/deep-remorse-japanese-emperor-marks-75th-anniversary-of-surrender\">&#8216;Deep remorse&#8217;: Japanese emperor marks 75th anniversary of surrender<\/a> <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/03\/from-the-archive-1945-japan-signs-the-terms-of-surrender\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>3 September 1945: With the signing on the USS Missouri, the second world war is now officially over. Full occupation of Japan is about to beginThe Japanese signed the terms of surrender in the American battleship Missouri early yesterday and the war is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,88,220,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-japan","category-second-world-war","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22368"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22369,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22368\/revisions\/22369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}