Did Japan lose world war 2?

Answer 1

Yes, although it went against the wishes of many people who belived in honor, they officialy surrendered on September 2, 1945. Some Japanese soldiers then commited suicde or "seppuku" to release themselves of the pain of defeat. Yes they did, in a ceremony on the deck of the battleship U.S.S. Missouri in Tokyo harbour, on September 2, 1945 about three weeks after the second atomic bomb was dropped. The Official Instrument of Surrender was signed by the Japanese Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu on behalf of the Emperor and the government of Japan and General Yoshijiro Umezu, the Chief of the Army General Staff, on behalf of the Japanese armed forces. The time was noted as 4 minutes past 9 o'clock. General of the Army Douglas MacArthur, Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers, accepted the surrender "for the United States, Republic of China, United Kingdom, and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and in the interests of the other United Nations at war with Japan." Jim Bunting. Toronto. The formal surrender of Japan to the Allied Powers took place on September 2, 1945. In actuality, there were hundreds of surrenders of Japanese forces throughout Asia and the Pacific. In many cases the surrender of Japanese units in remote areas was delayed almost until 1946 because there were no allied units available to accept the surrender and process the Japanese war materiel and personnel.