Finally MacArthur turned to Sutherland and said tersely, “Sutherland, show him where to sign.”52 Sutherland put his finger down on the line over the foreign minister’s name. Shigemitsu glanced up at Kase, who checked his watch and said that it was 9:04. With a few strokes of the pen, the foreign minister signed his name in kanji and added the time. With that, the Second World War was formally ended. When Shigemitsu
