この文書（JCS1467/6）は、1945年9月2日の戦艦ミズーリ号上の降伏調印式で調印・署名された「降伏文書」（Instrument of Surrender）と同日付けで公布された「天皇の詔書」（Ploclamtion of the Emperor）の写しであり、調印式の終了後、JCSで回覧されたものである。
JCS1467/6は、the Instrument of Surrender( Enclosure "A")と、The Proclamation issued by the Emperor of Japan(Enclosure "B")からなり、正式に調印・発令されたもである。。
内容はJ.C.S.1467と全く同じである。
J.C.S.1467と比較すると、"I"が"We"に、"my"が"our"に変更されているが、他は同じである。
J.C.S.1467/6
11 September 1945JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF
INSTRUMENTS FOR THE SURRENDER OF JAPAN
Reference: J.C.S.1467 Series
Note by the Secretaries
The enclosures, the Instrument of Surrender ( Enclosure "A")and the Proclamation issued by the Emperor of Japan(Enclosure "B")as executed, are circulated for information.
ENCLOSURE "A"
INSTRUMENT OF SURRENDER
We, acting by command of and in behalf of the Emperor of Japan, the Japanese Government and the Japanese Imperial General Headquarters, hereby accept the provisions set forth in the declaration issued by the heads of the Governments of the United States, China and the Great Britain on 26 July 1945 at Potsdam, and subsequently adhered to by the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, which four powers are hereafter referred to as Allied Powers.
We hereby proclaim the unconditional surrender to the Allied Powers of the Japanese Imperial General Headquarters and of all Japanese forces and all armed forces under Japanese control wherever situated.
We hereby command all Japanese forces wherever situated and the Japanese people to cease hostilities forthwith, to preserve and save from damage all ships, aircraft, and military and civil property and to comply with all requirements which may be imposed by the Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers or by agencies of the Japanese Government at his direction.
We hereby command the Japanese Imperial General Headquarters to issue at once orders to the commanders of all Japanese forces and all forces under Japanese control wherever situated to surrender unconditionally themselves and all forces under their control.
We hereby command all civil, military and naval officials to obey and enforce all proclamations, orders and directives deemed by the Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers to be proper to effectuate this surrender and issued by him or under his authority and we direct all such officials to remain at their posts and to continue to perform their non-combatant duties unless specifically relieved by him or under his authority.
We hereby undertake for the Emperor, the Japanese Government and their successors to carry out the provisions of the Potsdam Declaration in good faith, and to issue whatever orders and take whatever action may be required by the Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers or by any other designated representative of the Allied Powers for the purpose of giving effect that Declaration.
We hereby command the Japanese Imperial Government and the Japanese General Headquarters at once to liberate all allied prisoners of war and civilian internees now under Japanese control and to provide for their protection, care, maintenance and immediate transportation to places as directed.
The authority of the Emperor and the Japanese Government to rule the state shall be subject to the Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers who will take such steps he deems proper to effectuate these terms of surrender.
Signed at Tokyo Bay at 0904 I on the Second day of September,1945
Mamoru Shigemitsu
By Command and in behalf of the Emperor of Japan and the Japanese GovernmentYoshijiro Umezu
By Command and in behalf of the Japanese Imperial General HeadquartersAccepted at Tokyo Bay at 0908 on the Second day of September, 1945, for the United States, Republic of China, United Kingdom and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and in the interests of the other United Nations at war with Japan.
Douglas MacArthur
Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers
C. W. Nimitz
United States Representative
Hau Yung-Ch'ang
Republic of China Representative
Bruce Fraser
United Kingdom Representative
Lieutenant General K. Dekevyanko
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics Representative
C. A. Blamey
Commonwealth of Australia Representative
Moore Cosgrove
Dominion of Canada Representative
Le Clerc
Provisional Government of the French Repulic Representative
C.E.L.Ｈelfreich
Kingdom of the Netherlands Representative
Leonard M. Issitt
Dominion of New Zealand RepresentativeUnited States RepresentativeENCLOSURE "B"
PROCLAMATION BY THE EMPEROR OF JAPAN
Accepting the terms set forth in the Declaration issued by the heads of the Governments of the United States, Great Britain and China on July 26,1945 at Potsdam and subsequently adhered to by the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, We have commanded the Japanese Imperial Government and the Japanese Imperial General Head Quarters to sign on Our behalf the instrument of surrender presented by the Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers and to issue General Orders to the Military and Naval forces in accordance with the direction of the Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers. We command all Our people forthwith to cease hostilities, to lay down their arms and faithfully to carry out all the provisions of the instrument of surrender and the General Orders issued by the Japanese Imperial General Headquarters thereunder.
This second day of the ninth of the twentieth yaer of Syowa.
Seal of
the Signed:HIROHITO
Emperor
Countersigned:Naruhiko-o
Prime Minister
