World War II was the largest battle in human history, involving nearly 2 billion people and killing more than 90 million soldiers and civilians after the war. The main culprits of the Second World War were Nazi Germany, the Kingdom of Italy and the Empire of Japan, the three fascist Axis powers, and Japan launched a war of aggression against China in 1931, burning and plundering on Chinese land, and was extremely arrogant.
On July 7, 1937, the Japanese army conducted a military exercise near the Lugou Bridge, and then under the pretext of a soldier disappearing, clashed with our army, and then launched an attack. After the July 7 Incident, the Japanese army even boasted of such a nonsense as "three months to destroy China", while the Chinese compatriots all rose up to resist the war and united to resist the enemy, and with the development of the tug-of-war, the Japanese army became even more difficult to move.
On December 7, 1941, after the outbreak of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States officially entered the war, the spearhead was directed at Japan, and the Pacific Theater was also opened, and Japan began to retreat. In 1945, on the eve of the end of World War II, China, Britain, and the United States jointly issued the Potsdam Proclamation, which was aimed at allowing Japan, which was still stubbornly resisting, to surrender early.
Under the influence of the Emperor and the militaristic ideology, the Japanese military and people's dedication to the war was simply described by the word "fanaticism." The Japanese side rejected the contents of the Potsdam Proclamation, saying that it had no way to retreat to fight to the end.
Exhausted by the effects of war, the United States decided to drop two atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan. The Last Vestiges of the Japanese Military were completely destroyed by two atomic bombs, and soon after the Emperor announced his surrender.
However, many people may not know that before surrendering, they actually put forward three conditions, because these three conditions had a very important impact on Japan, and if they did not agree, they might fight to the end.
The first is to retain the emperor system, in which the emperor is the highest level ruler, and even once directly used to serve as a model and symbol of Japan, for example, in the 1889 Japanese Constitution there is a very important paragraph: "The emperor is sacrosanct and inviolable, and he has the right to rule." In the past, the Japanese emperor existed as a descendant of the "gods."
Therefore, the first condition for Japan's surrender was to retain the emperor system, but in 1946, the United States forced Emperor Showa to issue a human declaration denying the emperor's status as a "god" in Japan, but despite this, the emperor is still a god in the hearts of the Japanese people, which is unshakable. If the emperor system had been abolished at that time, I was afraid that the Japanese military and civilians would really resist to the end.
The second condition is to deal with war criminals independently, the Japanese emperor is high up in Tokyo, Japan, his commander-in-chief, and his senior generals are fighting for him, many of whom are "heinous" war criminals, who do not know how many innocent people's blood has been stained on their hands, but many of them have not suffered any trial after returning to Japan, and even are regarded as heroes by the Japanese people.
The third condition is that no other countries will be allowed to enter Japan. At that time, many countries opposed This demand of Japan, after all, it was Japan, one of the fascist Axis powers, that launched the Second World War. But in the end, because of the intervention of the United States, Japan's conditions were half successful, and in the end only American troops were stationed in Japan.