Japanese Officials Arrive U.S. Battleship For Surrender Ceremony -- The Japanese military and diplomatic delegation, headed by Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu (with cane) and General Yoshijiro Umezu (front, right), Chief of the Imperial General Staff, arrive aboard the U.S. "battleship Missouri to attend formal surrender ceremonies, as Allied military officers look on. The Japanese capitulation documents were signed on Sept. 1, 1945, aboard the 45,000-ton battleship in Tokyo-Bay, south of the Japanese capital. June 9, 1945.