Japan has become a very powerful country in modern history through reforms, and no country in Asia can match them in terms of military force. This made Japan's ambitions grow, and finally they joined forces with Germany to start World War II. This war has caused countless people to die in the war, it can be said that Japan has committed many crimes, then in this war, China is hit by Japan's key blows, because the two countries are adjacent to each other, Japan began to fight China's idea very early, and they also joined forces with the Western powers to obtain a lot of benefits from the Qing government, and also divided a lot of territory.
At the beginning of World War II, they used their powerful military power to directly occupy most of China. Fortunately, the resistance of the Chinese people was very resolute, and with unremitting efforts, Japan finally could not hold on, and in 1945, Japan chose to surrender.
What is puzzling is that at that time, Japan was said to still have more than 7 million troops, and the Kwantung Army in the northeast region alone still had hundreds of thousands, with so many military strength, why did they choose to surrender? These 3 reasons are all heart-wrenching!
The United States and the Soviet Union participated
In fact, it can be seen from the war launched by the United States against Japan that Japan had entered a state of madness at that time, and they began to kill the Allied forces at all costs.
Later, in China itself, they suffered a frantic counterattack by the Chinese army, which led to heavy losses for the Japanese army, and their plan to annex China also completely failed. At the same time, the Soviet Union basically ended the battle with the German army and began to concentrate heavy troops in the Far East and other places to destroy the Japanese army, the Soviet Red Army lightning encircled and suppressed the Kwantung Army, and the United States began to continuously gain combat superiority in the Pacific theater, and the war had completely spread to Japan itself.
Weak combat effectiveness
At this time, Japan did have millions of troops, which is not completely boastful, their army composition is relatively complex, and those who can be mobilized in the country have been dispatched, and even children have been trained as soldiers, as well as the puppet armies of various occupying countries. It seems that this army is relatively large, but in fact their combat effectiveness is quite limited.
At that time, the combat strength of the Japanese army was far from being compared with the beginning, and it can be said that their most elite troops, or these armies in the early days of World War II, were quite high in terms of soldiers' combat ability and combat quality, but most of them were forcibly recruited in the later period, and they had no combat ability at all, and they were also counted on the battlefield.
More importantly, Japan has been threatened with nuclear weapons, and the United States has dropped two atomic bombs, threatening that if they do not surrender, they will continue to carry out nuclear attacks on major cities such as Tokyo.
Lack of resources
There is another point, Japan really can't fight anymore, their military industrial system in Southeast Asia has been basically destroyed, in China and other places have suffered a total defeat, want to use local resources to continue to fight, there is no longer possible, Japan itself has suffered a serious blow, the domestic industrial system is basically completely destroyed, and even the fighter jets of the Japanese army fly into the sky, often only with half of the oil, they also created the famous kamikaze special forces, this kind of suicide attack has no effect, It also lost the elite combat power of the pilots in vain, and from these circumstances, we can see how embarrassed Japan was at that time.
They were able to hold on to it because of some luck, but the direct participation of the United States and the Soviet Union in the war also dashed their hopes. Japan underestimated China's combat capability, and they tried in vain to quickly solve China by relying on a blitzkrieg, but they did not expect that China would rely on a protracted war to constantly consume Japan's manpower and material resources, and when the United States and the Soviet Union came out to collect the head, Japan could no longer support it.
This is also the reason why they surrendered, there are no resources, there is no production capacity, there is no way to win the war by relying on millions of soldiers who have no intention of fighting, and besides, this kind of war of aggression launched by Japan is doomed to be won from the beginning, and the crimes they committed at the beginning need more time for them to repay.