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When did Japan announce its surrender in August 1945?
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atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
A gigantic mushroom cloud rising above Hiroshima, Japan, on August 6, 1945, after a U.S. aircraft dropped an atomic bomb on the city, immediately killing more than 70,000 people.
On August 14, 1945, the Japanese government officially accepted the Allied terms for surrender. The following day, on August 15, the Japanese public heard a recorded radio address from Emperor Hirohito announcing Japanās surrender. The formal signing of the surrender documents subsequently took place on September 2, 1945, aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay.123