After the outbreak of the Second World War, most countries in the world were deeply mired in the quagmire of war, with the surrender of Germany, the world anti-fascist war achieved initial victories, and the major battlefields basically ended fighting, leaving only Japan in the Asian region still stubbornly resisting. However, on August 15, 1945, Emperor Hirohito of Japan announced his unconditional surrender to the world by radio, and soon signed a formal surrender of defeat, thus ending World War II completely. But there is a lot of speculation about why Japan suddenly decided to surrender, was it because of the two atomic bombs dropped by the United States? Now the truth has finally been revealed, deceiving the world for 70 years.
At present, one of the most common views in the outside world is that because the two atomic bombs of the United States have caused great lethality, the two cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that have been attacked have no grass, and the local people's lives have been tormented and tormented, which has aroused strong public resentment, and the Japanese government has to consider surrendering, so as not to suffer the same suffering in other cities. There is some truth to this statement, but it is not the main reason, the atomic bomb in the United States is only one of the reasons that promoted Japan's surrender, and what really hurts Japan's nerves is another thing, which has been hidden for 70 years.
The truth of Japan's surrender was actually related to the Soviet Union, and the Soviet Union's sudden dispatch of troops against the Kwantung Army was the most fundamental reason for Japan's scruples. At that time, in order to avoid the huge casualties caused by the landing war, and planned to take Japan before the Soviet Union, the first atomic bomb was dropped on the Hiroshima area of Japan, the Japanese government was very shocked by such a huge lethal weapon, but was not frightened, and Emperor Hirohito even believed after seeing the report of the atomic bomb explosion that the United States could not use the same destructive weapon again in a short period of time, so it could not surrender easily. In this case, Japan believes that the United States has only one atomic bomb, so it insists on conditional surrender.
Then the Soviet Union, which had never taken a shot at Japan, suddenly announced that it had joined the war, and gathered 1.5 million troops to formally declare war on Japan, which made the Japanese feel bad, they knew that once the Soviet Union joined the war, the hope of mediation was completely shattered, and the ultimate goal of the Japanese stubborn resistance was to maintain the position of emperor. After the second American atomic bomb fell, Japan completely abandoned the delayed plan, which decided to surrender unconditionally and end the war once and for all.
In fact, Japan's surrender was an inevitable outcome, as early as the defeat of Germany, it was determined that the atomic bomb and the Soviet Union's million-strong army completely shattered Japan's dream.