<h1>In 1968, the Japanese movie "Japan's Longest Day" was released, which realistically restored the scene of the day before Japan's surrender. </h1>
The specific time of Japan's surrender was noon on August 15, 1945, marked by the broadcast of the "Edict of the End of the War" recorded in advance by the Japanese Emperor to all the Japanese people on NHK Radio, and the Emperor's "Tamaki Broadcasting" announced on behalf of the Empire of Japan that it accepted the joint proclamation and ended the war.
unconditional surrender? This word cannot be had, but the words are soaked with resentment and helplessness against the enemy's cruel bombs.
Of course, the announcement of acceptance of the Potsdam Proclamation is in fact an implicit indication of unconditional surrender, because the theme of the announcement is to make Japan surrender unconditionally. In addition to this theme, the announcement also announced in advance the treatment of Japan after the war: territorial occupation, surrender of war criminals, reorganization of the government, etc., which triggered disputes on the eve of the surrender within the Japanese government and army.
<h1>Drag back to a week ago. </h1>
On August 6, the American bomber express delivered the first nuclear explosion double gift package, issued in Hiroshima, Japan felt its power, but suspected that the Americans did not mass-produce, but can still insist.
On August 8, the Soviet Union declared war on Japan, and that night (00:10 on August 9) burst into Northeast China to conduct cross-border operations. This is another boot that the Japanese government has been waiting for for a long time, and it is also one of the things they feared the most before.
In the early morning of August 9, at the supreme war guidance meeting held at the imperial palace, the high-level participants quarreled endlessly, not to surrender or not to surrender, the consensus of surrender has long been agreed in everyone's mind, and the disagreement is whether it is decent and whether it can fight for more rights and interests. That is to say, whether it is unconditional surrender, or conditional surrender, and what conditions should be put forward if there is conditional surrender.
The participants basically formed two camps, one was the main faction of civilian officials, represented by Prime Minister Kantaro Suzuki, Foreign Minister Shigetoku Higashigo, and Minister of the Navy Mitsumasa Minouchi, whose views were close to unconditional surrender, and the only condition was to retain the emperor (the maintenance of the national system).
On the other side, the camp was once a hardline main war faction, with the personnel mainly in the military, represented by Minister of War Yukichi Anan, Chief of Staff Umezu Mijiro, and Minister of Military Command Toyoda Vice Takeshi. They knew no doubt that these conditions would certainly be rejected by the Allies, but they had the illusion that with the "vast" defenses planned by the Japanese mainland, they might negotiate on the basis of the Allied fears for casualties.
The meeting was held at ten o'clock in the morning, the two sides reached an impasse, and neither side could persuade the other, and the meeting was adjourned.
An hour later, the American bomber courier sent the second largest package of atomic explosions, signed to Nagasaki, and the hard-liners' arrogance was mostly cancelled.
That night (00:00 a.m. on the 10th), Suzuki Kantaro once again convened the participants of the Supreme War Guidance Council to hold a pre-imperial meeting, and the emperor also participated in this meeting.
<h1>The differences did not subside, the meeting was still being fought, Prime Minister Suzuki Kantaro had no choice but to ask the emperor himself to "holy judgment", Hirohito chose to support the majority of the opinion, agreed to unconditionally accept the Potsdam Proclamation. </h1>
When The Minister of War, Anan Weiji, conveyed this news back to the Army Province, a group of young and middle-aged officers and staff officers refused to accept it, and even forced Anan to resign, trying to cause the cabinet to resign and prevent the unconditional surrender plan. Anan only insisted that "the holy judgment has been made" and "if there are disobedients, please behead Anand first" and refused. Anan is only a die-hard fan of the emperor, although he is not happy to see unconditional surrender, but "unhappy" can be achieved by suicide, he will never challenge the emperor's authority, and the angry young officers at the bottom are not as rational as he is.
The disgruntled officers rallied around Anan's brother-in-law Masahiko Takeshita and continued to exert pressure on Anan, to no avail.
On the 13th, six young officers came to Anan's residence and threw him a "force mobilization plan" to ask for his support. The so-called "force mobilization plan" was actually no different from the coup d'état, the core content of which was to use the Eastern Army and the Guards Division to impose martial law, block the residences of the prime minister and ministers of the main and factions, and block the communication channel between them and the emperor.
On the 14th, after meeting with Umezu Mijiro, Anan rejected the coup plan. On the afternoon of this day, Hirohito recorded the Edict of the End of the War, which was ready to be published the next day.
<h1>The young officers did not have the support of the upper echelons and had to take the risk. </h1>
They persuaded Hideki Tojo's son-in-law, Hidesumasa Koga, a staff officer of the Guards Division, and obtained the support of the 2nd Infantry Regiment of the Guards Division, which was tasked with defending the Imperial Palace.
They then asked to see the commander of the Guards Division, Mori, and pleaded for his last support, but when they refused, they killed Mori, forged the orders of the division, and the coup was officially staged at 1 a.m. on August 15.
They cut off the telephone line of the palace and broke into the palace, and the first priority was to find the "Edict of the End of the War" recorded by Emperor Hirohito and destroy it, but unfortunately they had never entered the palace, they were not familiar with the terrain and the structure of the buildings inside, and they never found the recording disk hidden in the light vault of the Empress Palace Office.
When they learned of the killing of the commander of the Guards Division, an officer reported the information that he had received a suspicious order from the division to the Eastern Army, and the Eastern Army quickly launched a extinguishing operation. Facts proved that the rank of these young officers was too low, did not have effective control over the Guards Division, in the face of counterattack, the original will was not firm choice to withdraw, the will was firmly unable to organize resistance, most of them chose to commit suicide.
At five o'clock in the morning of the 15th, when the sun had just risen, almost at the same time as the coup d'état, the insider Anan only chose to commit suicide by cutting his abdomen, knowing that if the incident succeeded, he would face the emperor as minister of war; if the incident failed, he would also be unable to face the "humiliating" result of unconditional surrender.
His last words before he died were "Cut Off Mine!" Mitsumasa Minouchi was the Minister of the Navy at the time, and it is conceivable how united the Japanese Navy and Army were.
<h1>The only role of this attempted coup d'état was to establish in front of the Allies a good image of the emperor as an "innocent lover of peace", which, whatever the outcome, was a despicable and dirty drama. </h1>