Meticulous planning included estimating the time needed for the Japanese delegation’s leader—Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu (with cane, left), who had a wooden leg—to walk to the veranda deck. Large documents (right) necessitated a last-minute table-swap (Photo by J. R. Eyerman/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)
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