In April 1945, when the Soviet Union captured the German capital Berlin, Germany had to admit defeat and declare unconditional surrender, as for Italy, it had become a member of the Allies in 1943, and the three Axis powers of the fascist camp were only Left with Japan still struggling to support, and all countries had a premonition that World War II was about to end. At the end of World War II, Japan caused a lot of trouble to the Allies, and even though it knew that the situation was gone, it still refused to surrender, and was determined to confront the Allies to the end. After estimating the losses, the United States felt that it would lose if it continued to fight, so it decided to end the war with atomic bombs.
The reason why Japan originally put up a posture of not giving up until the country was destroyed was actually to get more chips at the negotiating table, but things have reached this point, does Japan still have the capital and the United States to negotiate conditions? Although it was originally declared to be unconditional surrender, Japan actually put forward three insidious demands, and in the end the United States also agreed, so Japan is not actually unconditional surrender.
The Japanese emperor said he would surrender on August 15, 1945, and the instrument of surrender was finally signed on September 2, less than a month later, when Japan and the Allies discussed the surrender. Supposedly, a defeated country like Japan, which has committed the most heinous crimes, should not have put forward conditions, but facts have proved that everyone has underestimated the shameful level of Japan.
The first condition proposed by Japan was that it hoped to pardon the Japanese emperor. Japan launched wars and invaded other countries in World War II, and the Japanese Emperor, as the leader of Japan, was the biggest war criminal. Hitler, the leader of Nazi Germany, committed suicide, Mussolini of Italy was executed, and the Japanese emperor could not escape, but Japan insisted that the emperor must be saved.
The second condition put forward by Japan is that it hopes that the trial of Japanese war criminals will not be carried out elsewhere, but will be conducted on Japanese soil. Japan knew that if it directly proposed pardons for those war criminals, the United States would never agree, so it thought of such a way, if the trial was held in Japan itself, they could find a way to reduce their sentences.
The third condition is that Japan will not be divided. Japan is afraid that other Allies will use control and surveillance as an excuse to divide Japan into two or three, so that Japan is really not a complete country, which will play a very big obstacle to Japan's future development.
After considering it, the United States finally chose to accede to Japan's request, on the one hand, because Japan said that if these conditions were not met, they would continue to fight, and on the other hand, because the United States could profit from it and could take the opportunity to demand the stationing of troops in Japan. In this way, Japan became the least punished of the three Axis powers.
Many people are very angry about this truth, as the initiator of the war, Japan has committed numerous crimes on the soil of other countries, but in the end it can exonerate the emperor and the war criminals in this way. Japan's original claim of unconditional surrender was a lie, which is unfair to those who died in this war.
Japan is now a hardcore little brother of the United States, and the United States and Japan are even more on the same front, flaunting their might and arrogance in the world, completely forgetting the sins they have committed. But we should not forget that we must remember this history, strive to develop ourselves, and must not let such a thing happen again!