China was represented by General Xu Yongchang at Japan’s 1945 surrender ceremony.
Xu Yongchang, also rendered Hsu Yung-chang in older English sources, signed the Japanese Instrument of Surrender as the representative of the Republic of China. He signed after U.S. representative Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz during the ceremony aboard USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay.
China was one of the principal Allied powers in the Pacific war and had fought Japan since the beginning of the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1937. Its representative therefore held a prominent place in the formal Allied signing order.
The ceremony included representatives from nine Allied governments: the United States, China, the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, Australia, Canada, France, the Netherlands, and New Zealand. Xu’s role should not be confused with the later surrender ceremony in Nanjing on September 9, 1945, which formally ended Japanese operations in China.