[xkaydet65]

In his 1967 book, The Fall of Japan, William Craig wrote in depth of the efforts to stop the surrender.

[Vigilanteman]

One of Japan's biggest movie studios (Shochiku, as I recall) produced an outstanding movie with the English title "Japan's Longest Day." Well worth watching and accurately subtitled in English.

The emperor himself had to intervene to move forward with the surrender, so great was the opposition among the general staff.