Japan's surrender in China was formally accepted in Nanjing on September 9, 1945.
The ceremony took place at 9 a.m. in the auditorium of the Central Army Military Academy in Nanjing. It occurred one week after the main surrender ceremony aboard USS Missouri had ended the war between Japan and the principal Allied powers.
Nanjing had been the capital of the Republic of China during much of the Second Sino-Japanese War and had been occupied by Japanese forces after the 1937 Battle of Nanjing. The 1945 ceremony therefore carried particular symbolic importance for China. Japanese forces in China formally agreed to cease armed resistance and surrender to the Allied authorities.
The ceremony was originally scheduled for September 5 but was delayed four days. Japan's surrender orders had already followed Emperor Hirohito's August 15 broadcast. The Nanjing event was one of several regional surrender ceremonies held across Asia and the Pacific after the signing in Tokyo Bay.