Asia Pacific 1945: Surrender of Japan's Overseas Forces
![Political map of East Asia and the Western Pacific on 11 Oct 1945 (End of the Old Order: Surrender of Japan's Overseas Forces), showing the following events: Operation Tiderace; People’s Republic of Korea declared; US forces land at Incheon; Japanese surrender in China; Operation Masterdom; Chinese occupation of northern Indochina; Allied occupation of Indonesia; Operation Beleaguer.](https://omniatlas-media.s3.amazonaws.com/dist/img/maps/eastasia/eastasia19451011.png)
11 October 1945
11 Oct 1945
Surrender of Japan's Overseas Forces
2 Sep 1945 Occupation of Japan
11 Oct 1945 Surrender of Japan's Overseas Forces
27 Mar 1946 Reclaiming China
4 Aug 1947 Indonesian War of Independence
23 Jan 1949 Communist Victory in Northern China
1 Oct 1949 People's Republic of China
29 Dec 1949 Nationalist Taiwan
At the time of the Japanese surrender, Japan still had some 4 million troops stationed abroad. Over the following months, the Allies accepted the surrender of these forces, although they were dependent on them to maintain order for many months more. Some Japanese refused to surrender, instead joining the independence movements sprouting up across their former empire, most notably in French Indochina and the Dutch East Indies.