Eight other Allied nations had representatives sign Japan’s surrender document after the U.S. representative.
At the ceremony, Douglas MacArthur signed first for the Allied powers, followed by Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz as the United States representative. Representatives of eight other Allied nations then signed, led by General Xu Yongchang for China.
Those additional signatories represented countries and governments that had fought Japan or its allies in the wider war. They included the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, France, Australia, Canada, the Netherlands, and New Zealand, alongside China.
The sequence reflected the ceremony’s careful diplomatic design. Japan’s representatives signed first, then the Allied representatives signed in an ordered procession. The number eight refers to the other Allied national representatives after the U.S. signer, not to all people who signed the document.