But that wasn’t the Japanese offered, they offered surrender with Hirohito remaining in a reduced roll. This was their condition, as far as I understand it.
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aug 24, 2025, 6:51 pm • 0 0 • view
Fair enough. I think it was what the Japanese had offered in the first case, so maybe it was agreed on but apparently not included in the final surrender.
aug 24, 2025, 6:54 pm • 0 0 • view
After the Atomic bombings, the Japanese transmitted an intent to conditional surrender (touch not the Emperor but all else is fine) and the Americans vetoed the Soviet acceptance and replied that they had to put Hirohito's life in MacArthur's hands or they'd nuke Tokyo.
aug 24, 2025, 6:59 pm • 0 0 • view
Truman was an adamant believer in Vae Victis.
aug 24, 2025, 7:02 pm • 0 0 • view
The only edit made was changing the order that the witnesses' signatures were affixed to move the Japanese to the very end as a reinforcement of "nanny-nanny-boo-boo we won and you are all our bitches now"
aug 24, 2025, 6:56 pm • 0 0 • view