This month's cover illustration is the “Surrender of Japan, Tokyo Bay, 2 September 1945: Japanese representatives on board USS Missouri (BB-63) during surrender ceremonies.” Standing in front are: Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu (wearing top hat) and General Yoshijiro Umezu, Chief of the Army General Staff. Behind them are three representatives each of the Foreign Ministry, the Army, and the Navy. They include, in the middle row, left to right: Major General Yatsuji Nagai, Army; Katsuo Okazaki, Foreign Ministry; Rear Admiral Tadatoshi Tomioka, Navy; Toshikazu Kase, Foreign Ministry; and Lieutenant General Suichi Miyakazi, Army. In the back row, left to right (not all visible) are Rear Admiral Ichiro Yokoyama, Navy; Saburo Ota, Foreign Ministry; Katsuo Shiba, Navy; and Kaziyi Sugita, Army. Identities for rows two and three are from an annotated photograph in the Naval Historical Center files. The source of this photograph is Naval Historical Center Photo # USA C-2719,...

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