National Registry of Historic Sites and Structures in the Philippines: Signing of the Japanese Capitulation Document

Location: Camp John Hay, Baguio City

Category: Personages

Type: Biographical marker

Status: Level II - Historical marker

Marker date: 1946

Installed by: Philippines Historical Committee (PHC)

Marker text:

SIGNING OF THE JAPANESE CAPITULATION DOCUMENT

HERE WAS SIGNED THE CAPITULATION DOCUMENT FOR THE SURRENDER OF THE JAPANESE IMPERIAL FORCES IN THE PHILIPPINES ON SEPTEMBER 3, 1945 AT 12:07 P.M. GEN. TOMUYUKI YAMASHITA, LT. COL. MOTO, VICE-ADMIRAL OKOCHI AND REAR-ADMIRAL ARIMA SIGNED FOR JAPAN. MAJOR GEN. E.H. LEAHEY, PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE OF GEN. DOUGLAS MACARTHUR WHO WAS IN TOKYO SIGNED FOR THE UNITED STATES. OTHERS PRESENT WERE: LTS. GEN. SIR ARTHUR PERCIVAL AND JONATHAN WAINWRIGHT, MAJS. GEN. DENNIS P. SWIFT, WOOD DECHER, ROBERTS BEIGHTLER, WILLIAM H. GILL, F.A. IRVING, COL. RUSSEL R. VOLCKMANN, ETC.

Legend

LEVEL I - Sites and Structures declared as National Shrine, National Historical Landmark, National Historical Site, and National Monument (Entries with asterisks)

LEVEL II - Sites and Structures declared as Heritage Zones/Historic Centers, Heritage Houses and bearing Historical Markers

DELISTED - Declared and/or marked historic sites and structures that were removed from the national registry

LIFTED - Sites and structures 50 years old and above removed of its presumption as Important Cultural Property (R.A. 10066)

Signing of the Japanese Capitulation Document

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