At a time when the Japanese fascists were weakening, the Japanese fascists still refused to admit their doom, so they put up a final resistance, such as the decisive battle of jade fragments advocated by generals such as Ushijima Man, which hoped to make the US military bow in front of the huge casualties by exchanging lives for their lives, and then obtain the capital for Japan to "truce" at the negotiating table.
As a result, the Battle of Okinawa and Iwo Jima did achieve Japan's tactical goal of "killing and wounding a large number of Americans" and beating the US troops to blood, but the result was not as the Japanese thought, and the Allies directly issued an ultimatum to Japan through the Potsdam Proclamation, demanding Japan's unconditional surrender.
The Potsdam Proclamation clearly expressed the need to comply with the spirit of the Cairo Declaration, that after Japan's surrender, it would be disarmed and war criminals would be tried, that industries involving the military industry would be banned, that the current government would be overthrown, that a new government responsible for peace would be in charge, and that Japan's sovereignty would be limited to several large islands and islands designated by the Allies, such as Honshu, Kyushu, Shikoku, and Hokkaido.
As soon as the announcement was issued, the whole country was in an uproar, but because of the Japanese government's long-term media bias reports, many Japanese people did not think that their country would lose at all, and in their impression, although the war was very difficult, the Japanese army has been winning, how can they suddenly be forced by others to "unconditional surrender"? When did the war come to this point? Doesn't China still have an army? Isn't there still an army in Southeast Asia?
The Japanese government, on the other hand, was a different story, with the military unwilling to stop on its own, but not confident in containing the United States, so they gave up some of the more important government positions and let people from other factions go up to the top, such as the resignation of military Prime Minister Koiso Kunisaki and replaced by The Pro-Emperor and The Surrender of the Navy Prime Minister Suzuki Kantaro. The senior generals of the Japanese Army, who knew that they would be doomed, shook the emperor and the country, because if the Americans came to fight, then the "national essence" would be difficult to protect, and japan's emperor system would end.
"Kunimoto" is also the most worrying place for the Japanese emperor faction, who are very afraid that the US military will completely overthrow Japan to the sky, and at the same time, they will hang these war criminals for trial, and even ban the legal existence of the emperor system. Therefore, although Emperor Hirohito at that time was afraid to die on the one hand, he was extremely close to the former prime minister of the pro-American faction, Mitsumasa Minouchi, and on the other hand, he regarded Anan and other military generals who were ready to "die and be loyal" as his confidants.
To put it bluntly, Emperor Hirohito already had the intention of surrendering, but he was unwilling to give up the emperor system, so he took advantage of the capital of the soldiers who had no way out. The soldiers also used the government to tie the people together and called for "100 million people to be crushed" for the sake of the emperor and the imperial state.
This high-level undecided attitude undoubtedly led to further confusion, so that after the Potsdam Proclamation was issued to Japan on July 26, 1945, Japanese Prime Minister Kantaro Suzuki adopted a very wordless response method - "silent killing", which was explained as "I don't listen to me, I don't listen, I don't listen."
Kantaro Suzuki's original words were as follows: "I think that the proclamation is just a copy of the Cairo Declaration, so the government does not think it deserves attention, so it ignores it." My country will resolutely complete the war. ”
It is precisely because of this "silent killing" that it brought the disaster of two atomic bombs to Japan, and after some deliberation and internal debate, the Truman administration finally believed that the use of atomic bombs at this time was in line with the current US presidential team and the national strategic interests, so it did not hesitate to carry out nuclear bombing against Japan.
And based on the need for secrecy, the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima did not carry out any advance warning, because the US military at that time had no bottom in its own mind, and Marshall Chief of Staff and Stimson believed that it should be kept secret, otherwise if the Japanese army knew that there were "super bombs" that would bomb them, it was not possible to use suicide planes to attack them in advance. Or if the atomic bomb drop fails, the weapons will be taken by the prepared Japanese.
In this way, the Hiroshima atomic bomb exploded with a "bang" under the planned preparation of the US military. However, it was later confirmed that the Americans were thinking too much, because this super bomb was beyond the comprehension of the Japanese. In order to let the people continue to be cannon fodder, the Japanese government also blocked and misled these news, such as explaining to the people that this was an "extraterrestrial meteorite" and not an Allied weapon.
At that time, the Japanese people did not bother to think more, the war hit this part, people will no longer be moved by a "super explosive bomb", Li Mei's previous large-scale incendiary bomb attack, has long burned Japan into a scorched earth, casualties greatly exceeded the atomic bomb. So the leaflets that the second Nagasaki bomb spilled before it was dropped were not taken seriously by the Japanese at all, or they didn't care.
Ironically, the Japanese government, which recognized the power of the atomic bomb, was now willing to surrender again, because the Red Army had begun to attack the Japanese army. The Americans also said that they could temporarily leave Japan's "national foundation" unchanged, which made Emperor Hirohito break with the soldiers, and he decided to surrender unconditionally to the Allies.
For this reason, the soldiers who refused to accept defeat also tried to carry out a coup d'état to hold the emperor hostage that night, but in the end this meaningless action was foiled, and Anan committed suicide by caesarean section, shouting before dying: "The princes must kill the thief of the country, Minai!" "There are a lot of soldiers like him who commit suicide.
In fact, Japan resolutely refused to surrender, and it also had a lot to do with the Soviet Union; the Soviet Union signed the "Soviet-Japanese Neutrality Treaty" with Japan during World War II; Japan did not fight the Soviet Union, the Soviet Union did not move Japan, the two sides cooperated in the exploitation of the Sakhalin oil fields, the Soviet Union withdrew its military aid to China, and Japan did not move a single cold hair of the Soviet Union. Therefore, for a long time, Japan-Soviet relations have been in a relatively gentle state, and Japan has always hoped to help connect with the United States through the Soviet Union at the end of the war in order to maintain vested interests to a certain extent, and even hopes to exchange Chinese land with the Soviet Union for the Soviet Union to help Japan.
Until the second atomic bombing, Japan regarded the Soviet Union as a life-saving straw, and the Japanese were keenly aware of the growing discord between the United States and the Soviet Union, and they believed that the United States and the Soviet Union would have friction due to the uneven distribution of benefits, which could become an opportunity for Japan to take sides, so they did their best to delay time. However, Stalin sent all the correspondence documents with Japan to the United States, and the attitude of the Japanese was clearly understood by the Americans.
In the final analysis, the Japanese are not willing to die, and they do not shed tears when they do not see the coffin.