General Hsu Yung-chang signed Japan’s Instrument of Surrender at the USS Missouri ceremony for China.
Hsu Yung-chang represented the Republic of China at the formal surrender in Tokyo Bay on 2 September 1945. He signed after Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz, the United States representative, and before the British representative.
China had fought Japan for years before the wider Pacific War and was one of the governments named in the Allied declarations demanding Japan’s surrender. Its representative’s signature acknowledged China’s place among the principal Allied powers.
Hsu is sometimes confused with Chiang Kai-shek, China’s wartime leader. Chiang did not attend the ceremony; Hsu signed the document on China’s behalf.