Eight Allied nations besides the United States signed Japan's surrender document after Chester Nimitz in 1945.
The ceremony's Allied signatories after Nimitz represented China, the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, Australia, Canada, France, the Netherlands, and New Zealand. General Douglas MacArthur signed first for the Allied powers, and Nimitz signed as the U.S. representative.
The order reflected the broad coalition that had fought Japan across the Asia-Pacific region and beyond. The representatives included senior military officers and diplomats, rather than only heads of government.
Japan was represented by Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu for the government and General Yoshijirō Umezu for the armed forces. The signing ceremony therefore displayed both the international character of the Allied victory and the separate civilian and military structures of Japan's surrender. It took place on the deck of USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay on September 2, 1945.