[gaijin]

Japan’s Longest Day: there was an actual firefight on the grounds of the Imperial Palance, in an effort to head-off a broadcast of the Emperor’s Voice announcing the end of the war.

Some Japanese planes did attack US ones even after the surrender.

Were it not for the broadcast they SURELY would have fought on. The surrender had much more to do with RUSSIA than the atomic bombs —the Japanese knew the Russians would never agree to permitting the Emperor system to remain in place.

[Roccus]

<<>> I remember when Japanese soldiers were found on islands in the early '50s. The last one surrendered in 1974 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_holdout

[tet68]

Russia continued to fight and conquer Japanese forces
even after the surrender.

[God luvs America]

they actually made two copies of the recording by hiroheto announcing surrender- they had to hide the recordings overnight as they tried to assassinate the emperor’s keeper who had hid the recordings for safe measure so they could be broadcast the following day....forget about the fact jap planes attacked the next day- japs butchered 100’s of American POW’s held in camps in anger when they got word of the surrender...the Russians were more concerned about total surrender by japan then the emperor, which is why they would’ve massacred the Japs- they wanted the Japs out of what would soon be communist controlled Chinese territory...

if Jap atrocities were broadcast the way nazi atrocities are still broadcast today, Japan would be a third world country...

[tanknetter]

Japan’s Longest Day: there was an actual firefight on the grounds of the Imperial Palance, in an effort to head-off a broadcast of the Emperor’s Voice announcing the end of the war.

All evidence clearly supports the conclusion that Japan would have fought on to the bitter end had it not been for the bombs. And yes, senior members of the Japanese military were completely opposed to surrender even AFTER the bombs had been dropped.

The Weekly Standard's Why Truman Dropped the Bomb article from 2005 is a great reference on the subject.

[dfwgator]

Japan’s Longest Day: there was an actual firefight on the grounds of the Imperial Palance, in an effort to head-off a broadcast of the Emperor’s Voice announcing the end of the war.

Sounds like a great movie, they can call it, "The Emperor's Speech."