76 years ago, why Japan's surrender ceremony held in China's Zhijiang county

After the Japanese government announced its unconditional surrender on August 15, 1945, China's top priority was to determine the place for accepting Japan's unconditional surrender. After serious studies and considerations, it was believed that Zhijiang in Hunan had all the conditions and factors to accept Japan's unconditional surrender. Finally, on August 17, 1945, Zhijiang, Hunan was identified as the site where the Chinese war zone accepted the Japanese surrender.

On August 21, 1945, the Japanese invaders' surrender representative, Imai Takeo, and his team flew to Zhijiang to request their surrender.

At 3:40 p.m. on August 21, 1945, representatives from China and Imai Takeo from Japan held a surrender-acception talk. Imai Takeo and his three team members were taken to the surrender-acception hall to bow and hand over "Deployment Diagram of Invading Japanese Troops in the War Zone of China."

At the ceremony, Japanese surrender representative, Imai Takeo, signed a series of memorandums about the surrender of Japanese troops and weapons.

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