On August 15, 1945, the Emperor of Japan officially announced defeat and surrender. On this day, the whole country of Japan mourned, whether it was the army or the common people, it was better to mourn the concubines, and great trouble was imminent. Those who commit suicide by caesarean section, those who resist to the end, there are many people. In short, the surrender of the Japanese was reluctant and unwilling.
Because of this, to this day, the ghost of resurrecting Japanese militarism has not dissipated, and in the hearts of many Japanese people, this surrender is not willing to accept.
But the reality is unforgiving, history is immutable, and the surrender that the Japanese regard as a disgrace is firmly anchored in the pillar of shame of their history and deeply engraved into a page of world history.
The surrender of Japan, a militant nation that was once aggressive, is the best historical lesson for it, and if it embarks on the old path of militaristic aggression, it will still not be able to escape the fate of defeat and surrender.
Obviously, the surrender of the Japanese is not voluntary, nor is it from the heart, nor is it from the subjective wishes of the government or the military, they have to do it, and the reason why they have to do it is strong pressure from the outside: if they do not surrender, the country will perish.
The surrender of the Japanese had both external and internal causes, and it can be said that they were caused by many factors.
From the perspective of our Chinese, the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, which paid great sacrifices, was an important reason for Japan's surrender; in 1945, the domestic anti-Japanese battlefield had entered the stage of all-round counteroffensive, the Japanese army was already in a retreating trend, and it was no longer unable to attack, and the offensive of the Chinese military and people had become unstoppable, and the overall rout of the Japanese army was an indisputable fact.
In such a situation, in the face of an unwinnable war, the best choice is of course surrender. Just imagine, if the Japanese army still swept through thousands of troops on the Battlefield of China, won victories step by step, and consolidated the territory of the warlords, together with the puppet regime, firmly controlled the land of China, could it obediently surrender?
But it is undeniable that the most direct reason is the victory of the United States In the Pacific War, so that it is approaching the japanese island, especially the detonation of two atomic bombs on the Japanese mainland, resulting in an unprecedented human-made apocalyptic war tragic image, which no one with a little brain, no country, can face and bear.
And U.S. President Harry Truman said on the radio after the two atomic bombs exploded that if the Japanese "still refuse to accept our conditions now, what awaits them will be a series of destructions falling from the sky, which is unprecedented on our earth..." The subtext is that Japan will not surrender, it will enter the era of flood famine, and it will even be ruthlessly erased from the earth.
The threat was deadly and completely destroyed the self-confidence of the Japanese. For the Japanese, surrender can only be the only option, otherwise it is the extinction of the species.
So the Emperor ordered the Foreign Minister to point out to the Prime Minister, who was bent on war, that given that the US military had used "new" weapons, Japan was now powerless to continue the war and must find ways to end the war as soon as possible, and Japan should accept this inevitable outcome, that is, surrender.
Another straw that crushed the Japanese was the Soviet government's announcement that from August 9 the Soviet Union and Japan would be at war. Then the Soviet Red Army dealt a devastating fatal blow to the Japanese Kwantung Army with a thunderous momentum.
Of course, Japan itself no longer has the stamina to continue the war. Resources were extremely scarce, the economy was in a great depression, the casualties of the army were huge and it was difficult to replenish, the control of the sea and air had been fully grasped by the Allies, and in essence, Japan was no longer able to wage war. Imagine if the disparity in strength between the enemy and us was still as great as in the early days of the war, and the Japanese army maintained an absolute superiority in strength, even if the emperor was willing to surrender, the Japanese army would not agree.
However, on August 14, 1946, one year after Emperor Hirohito's decision to surrender, Hirohito gathered key figures such as former Prime Minister Kantaro Suzuki and then Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida and explained the real reasons for his surrender at that time. Not afraid of defeat, defeat is the beginning of a new round of power. This may be the real reason for Hirohito's surrender.
The atomic bomb destroying several cities was a disaster for the Japanese people, and it was nothing for the Japanese army, but it was the driving force for them to launch aggression, and they would only counterattack more wildly in order to win more victories in the war and force other countries to close their hands. But reality does not develop as these arrogant militarists idealized, moves against the tide of history, and is doomed to failure and demise.
In short, Japan's surrender was determined by the inevitability of historical development, and it was the joint action of external and internal factors. The Japanese had no way to retreat, and surrender was their only option in the face of the subjugation of the country and the extinction of the species.