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Japanese officials stand in a group facing representatives of the Allied armed forces prior to signing the surrender agreement on the deck of the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay, on September 2, 1945, during the surrender ceremony marking the end of World War II. According to AP-Kyodo polling 60 years after World War II ended, Japan and the United States forged a close political alliance out of the ashes of the world war, and the people in each country now have generally good feelings about each other. But people in the two countries have very different views on everything from the U.S. use of the atomic bomb in 1945, fears of North Korea, and the U.S. military presence in Japan. In front line of the photo wearing top hat is Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu and to his right is Gen. Yoshijiro Umezu, Chief of the Army General Staff. Behind them are three representatives each of the Foreign Ministry, the Army, and the Navy. Among the officers in the foreground are Fleet Adm. Chester W. Nimitz and Gen. of the Army Douglas MacArthur. (KEYSTONE/AP Photo/Max Desfor) === ===