The fact that the first meeting between General Douglas MacArthur and Emperor Hirohito (September 27, 1945) took place on American ground - the US Tokyo embassy - and not in the surrounding Japan showed very clearly to the world, who was the victor of World War II and who was the defeated. Also MacArtur's choice of clothing, a relaxed battle dress, not dress uniform, was presumably intended to show that here was a man, who could do as he pleased. Furthermore, the casual way the general posed was interpreted as, if not disrespect then at least as something that none of Hirohito's subjects would ever dare. Immediately after the meeting the provisional Japanese government forbade any publication of the image. MacArthur, on his side, promptly responded by annulling the government's decree - a humiliation in itself - whereafter he ordered all Japanese newspapers to publish the photograph instantly! The San Francisco Treaty, mentioned on the back of the photograph, was the agreement that on September 8, 1951 formally ended World War II, ceased the American occupation of Japan and cemented that the country was no longer to be considered a major political power. The agreement drew much of its content from the UN Charter.