The Auditorium of the Central Military Academy in Nanjing, China

On the morning of September 9, 1945, the surrender ceremony of the Chinese Theater was held in the Auditorium of the Central Military Academy in Nanjing, China. On September 2, 1945, Japanese Foreign Minister Aoi Shigemitsu formally signed the instrument of surrender aboard the USS Missouri. On September 9, the surrender ceremony of the Chinese theater was held in the auditorium of the former Central Military Academy in Nanjing. The commander-in-chief of the Japanese invaders, Okamura Neiji, submitted the surrender document to He Yingqin, the commander-in-chief of the Chinese government’s army in Nanjing. Okamura Neiji held the surrender document with both hands. , sign the words "Okamura Neiji", and then stamp it.

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On August 6, 1945, in order to avoid a landing battle with large casualties and to capture the Japanese mainland before the Soviet Union, the U.S. military dropped the first bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. The atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki three days later. On August 5, 200 fighter planes set off from Ryukyu Island and Iwo Jima bases to bomb Tokyo, its airport and Kyushu. Bombs and atomic bombs fell simultaneously, and twelve more cities in Japan were severely damaged. On August 8, the Soviet Red Army also declared war on Japan and launched Operation August Storm in accordance with the Yalta Treaty.