“Here was an enemy who had been trying to surrender for almost a year before the conflict ended.”
How hard is it to surrender?
Wow. You read the article in two minutes!
The Japanese surrendered because they didn’t know that we couldn’t nuke them a third time.
If your term are just stop killing us and let us keep our emperor, then evidently pretty hard.
The American dual policies of unconditional surrender and no separate peace are what made negotiating with Japan impossible. We were trying to keep the Soviets and the British from making a separate peace with Germany, which both were willing to do at various points during the war. How would it have looked if we had entertained the idea of a separate peace with Japan? Japan did make serious peace offers. In 1945 they offered complete unconditional surrender except for keeping the Emperor. We instead used the atomic bombs on them, then gave them exactly what they had asked for.
I have no sympathy for the Japanese military government, but it wasn't necessary to use nuclear weapons to get them to surrender. I believe that decision had more to do with Truman wanting to spook the Soviets.
Japan had conditions that the YS would not accept. One being that the emperor could not maintain his status. Occupation was an issue as well
How hard is it to surrender?
Really, 0 surrendered to Islamic terrorist even though they never quite killing us.
They were trying to conditionally surrender. Meaning they were calling the terms of the surrender.
In theirmfavor as to what they had done previously,,in terms of gains and possibly comtinued fighting against the chinese.