Raventwig · 7-Year Club · 3 points ·
This is a misconception. A majority of the Japanese government were already willing to surrender before either nuke as their intelligance had found out what the allied terms were from spies in Moscow. However, they couldn't officially say they knew the terms before the allied ultimatum had been sent, and when a government spokesperson was interviewed on if the government was considering surrender he used a hard to translate phrase that was supposed to mean something like "no comment" but was instead translated by allied intelligence as "never" or something to that effect. The result was that the allies thought an invasion of the home islands was necessary to force a surrender, unless they used the bomb. Between Hiroshima and Nagasaki the Japanese government was so fractured they had trouble coming up with a clear official response in time before the second bomb. Only after this did anyone ask the Emperor what he thought, he responded with something like "peace is good" witch was understood as a call to surrender. The soviet invasion was a nail in the coffin, but unnecessary. Also the Soviet Union somehow hilariously lost 30000 men fighting against a shadow of the Japanese army that barely had weapons, as most units had been sent to Okinawa or the home islands.
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