“The Japan approach of America worked a lot better. By all means however drastic suppress the revolt, but then forgive.”
A lesser known fact is that approximately 900 former Japanese civilian and military officials were executed after the war, including Hirota and Tojo among a group of seven who were hanged in 1948 after a Nuremberg-style trial.
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/japanese-war-criminals-hanged-in-tokyo
And then that was it to the war. WWII is still going on, as long as this goes on.