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Originally Posted by Slipdigit
It is amazing to me that it still took 6 days after the second atomic bomb, 9 after the first, for the Japanese to accept the surrender terms.
In other words, they still had people arguing for the continuance of the war even after that, and apparently numerous and powerful ones.
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This is covered quite well in 'Nemesis' by Max Hastings. It is quite a complicated issue but basically a way had to be found to achive the end of the war without the Emperor's cred being too badly damaged.
What is even more bizzare is that this still very nearly did not happen and there seem to be plenty of influential folk willing to go for National suicide!