After the Meiji Restoration, Japan's militarist education was frightening, and under the education of 90 years, a large number of people who did not know life and death, beauty and ugliness, justice and evil were educated, and their hearts were only the so-called Japanese power.
In their hearts whoever blocks their ideals is the opponent. Under this kind of education, the most effective ones are Meiji and Hirohito. They were revered as gods by the Japanese people. But all the gods on earth will always have a day to be punctured, and on the day of Japan's surrender, a group of war maniacs who have been punctured by the ideals are ready to gamble with all of Japan, as the price of shattering their dreams.
They were ready to bomb MacArthur and put all the Americans who set foot on American soil to death. Thus, the Japanese were bound to make the final resistance, and there was no woman or child left, and all went to the battlefield.
Japan's largest family of war criminals , Hirohito
American atomic bombs and Soviet soldiers
On July 13, 1945, the United States atomic bomb test was successful. Everyone present was shocked, and those who watched the entire experiment were shocked by its example. American soldiers saw this and shouted that the scientists were mad and out of control.
A sense of self-blame welled up in the eyes of scientists at the time—now I have become the representative of death, the destroyer of the world. Calm war commanders, however, let out a long sigh of relief —the war was over and all it took was one or two of these bombs.
On 16 July, Truman and Churchill received the news in a relatively short period of time. Stalin also learned later that a very powerful new type of weapon had been developed in the United States.
On July 24, Truman approved plans to use the atomic bomb. If Japan rejects the Potsdam Proclamation's demand for surrender, it can bomb Japan as the weather permits.
On July 25, Emperor Hirohito told Interior Minister Koichi Kido that the three major imperial artifacts—the Eight Mirrors, the Eight-Foot Qiongqu Jade, and the Kusanagi Sword—must not fall into the hands of the Americans.
On July 26, the big three issued an ultimatum to Japan to accept the Potsdam Proclamation. The next day, Prime Minister Suzuki said through the news media that he would not accept it.
On July 28, at the urging of hardliners such as the military's Anan, Japanese Prime Minister Kantaro Suzuki publicly expressed disdain for the Potsdam Proclamation. At this time, Japan still earnestly hoped that the Soviet Union would act as an intermediary to negotiate peace with the United States and Britain and reach an agreement to divide Asia.
At that time, there were still many people in the Japanese military who thought that the Soviet Union would accede to Japan's demands, and in their view, Britain was already in decline, the United States was isolated, and the Japanese government did not have to pay attention to them, just wait for the Soviet Union to reply.
On July 31, Hirohito again told Interior Minister Koichi Kido that he would never surrender and would persevere to the end.
On August 2, Truman, who had lost patience with Japan, gave the order to attack.
On August 3, the Japanese government held a meeting, and Japan's domestic chaebols, such as Nissan and the Bank of Japan, demanded to accept the Potsdam Proclamation, but Prime Minister Suzuki refused.
On August 6, the little boy was placed in Hiroshima, where nearly 100,000 people died. On August 8, the Soviet Union attacked the Kwantung Army on the grounds that Japan refused to accept the Potsdam Proclamation, and the news reached Japan the next day. At 11:00 a.m. on August 9, the Japanese government learned that a second atomic bomb (Fat Man) had exploded in Nagasaki (killing nearly 40,000 people).
Hirohito announced his surrender
On August 9, the Japanese military (Anan Yuji, Umezu Mijiro, Admiral Minouchi Mitsumasa, and Vice Takeshi Toyoda) and the government (mainly six people, including Prime Minister Suzuki and Foreign Minister Shigetoku Togo), immediately went to Hirohito's residence to attend the meeting.
At the meeting, the main body of the government accepted the Potsdam Proclamation, the military minister of war, General Anan, the chief of staff, Admiral Umezu Mijiro, and the chief of staff, and the chief of naval staff, Vice Admiral Toyoda, strongly opposed and demanded that Washington accept that the Japanese side disband the army on its own, war criminals should be tried in Japanese courts, and that the military occupation must be qualified in advance (non-occupation), and that the preservation of the national system (Hiranuma believes that even if all the people die in battle, it is necessary to retain the national system and defend the imperial family's Ahntai) (the fourth item is unanimously determined, The first three items are the only hard-liners such as Anan), otherwise surrender will not be accepted.
The meeting lasted until 9:30 p.m., when Prime Minister Suzuki and Foreign Minister Shigetoku Togo briefed Hirohito on the situation. Hirohito decided to attend the anti-aircraft bunker meeting under his residence, and finally made the final decision with his status as a "god". The meeting officially began at 11.30 p.m.
Citing the case of the annihilation of Kublai Khan's army in the Yuan Dynasty, Anan's only major generals believe that at this time, it cannot be said that it will be defeated, and as long as the US troops are led to the shore, the US troops can be annihilated. The Japanese army had to fight to the death against the invading enemy.
The honor of the state requires that the army must make this choice, because things have not yet reached the point where they must surrender.
Suzuki listened and asked the emperor to make a decision. Hirohito said only one word: end the war immediately.
When Hirohito said this, it was already 3 a.m. on the 10th. Four hours later, news of Japan's surrender was sent to the four major powers, Japan, to accept the Potsdam Proclamation, but only on the condition that the emperor's rule must be preserved.
But Hirohito was so concerned about his position that he waited for an American answer whether the emperor's power would be retained. The next day, U.S. Secretary of State Berrenz hinted to Japan that the emperor's power lay with the Supreme Commander of the United Nations. But the emperor's position may be maintained later.
For the next three days, it was quiet, waiting only for August 15 to announce japan's surrender to the world.
Japan was bombed by atomic bombs
Militarist rebels
The ambiguous answer of the United States divided Japan into two factions, and on August 14 the top brass met again to discuss how to deal with it. Hirohito understood that the U.S. military wanted to end the war as soon as possible, but also to take into account world public opinion, so he privately agreed with Japan's assertion (the United States did this not once or twice, which brought endless disputes in the future). So, Hirohito decided to believe in the Americans once.
In the afternoon of August 14, Hirohito recorded a broadcast for the first time. However, on the same night, a group of rebels, Anan's only generals and others conspired (or at least acquiesced), and the rebels launched an attack on Hirohito's residence.
Of course, they did not dare to directly target the emperor's life, but only wanted to take away the recording. The commander of the Emperor's Guards Division was killed for refusing the rebels' demands that he and his men refuse to obey the Emperor's orders. Later, after the rebels took control of the Guards Division, they forged Hirohito's orders and seals, declaring resistance to the end. But soon, it was extinguished by the emperor's troops.
A few hours later, before Hirohito officially announced his surrender, Anan and five other lieutenant generals committed suicide by caesarean section of their superior officers. Subsequently, a large number of generals, including Hirohito Guards Commander and founder of the Kamikaze Special Attack Force, Vice Admiral Ōnishi Takijiro, committed suicide by caesarean section.
On August 28, other leaderless rebels, led by middle-ranking and young officers, prepared to bomb the USS Missouri, which had held a surrender ceremony, and warships that had landed in Japan or were on the verge of Japanese territory, such as the U.S. Navy and the Fourth Marine Division. Whether or not MacArthur, Nimitz, and others can be killed, as long as the fight starts, the United States will inevitably take revenge, so that Japan can continue to fight.
Hirohito and the Japanese government immediately received this information, and Hirohito's third brother Prince Mitsumiya Nobuhito (Takamatsu Palace) went to persuade them with the remnants of the "Emperor Myth".
The threat of Japan's near-annihilation was lifted.
But the threat of the peace-loving peoples of the world is hidden. Anan and the others were just good-looking enough to bear failure.
Hirohito, on the other hand, turned this into a short-term failure.
Maybe they were influenced by Chinese, as we say - as long as the green mountains are there, they are not afraid of running out of firewood.
Perhaps one day, the world will still face its threat to world peace.