USS Missiouri, an Iowa class battlewagon.
Formally sign the documents. :)
The Japanese "instrument of surrender" was signed on board the USS Missouri on the 2nd of September, 1945. Please see the related links.
2nd September 1945, aboard USS Missouri
The declaration was formally signed on September 2, 1945. However, the actual surrender preceded that by a couple of weeks... the decision to accept the Joint Declaration was made on August 14 and broadcast to the Japanese people on August 15.
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The Nazi German Leader Admiral Doenitz surrendered in Berlin to Field Marshall Montgomery and they signed the Instrument of Surrender. The next day Admiral Doenitz had to sign another Instrument of Surrender with the Soviets in Berlin. The Japanese signed the Instrument of Surrender on the USS Missouri Ship with General MacArthur and some admirals.
The first instrument of Surrender was signed at Rheims, France, 7 May 1945 .
The universal sign for surrender is a white flag, which can also be a sign for surrender. It was first mentioned in 109 A.D. by the historian Cornelius Tacitus.
A white flag is the sign of truce/surrender.
The instrument of surrender was on September 2nd, 1945.
If you are talking about the unconditional surrender treaty the Japanese signed to end World War II, it was signed on the USS Iowa. Interesting note: American admiral Douglas MacArthur made the Japanese Emperor sign the document below one of the ship's 16-inch main guns.