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The viable alternative would have been demanding a surrender but stating that The Emperor will remain as a constitutional monarch - which is what the US ended u
by advisedwang 2y ago
The viable alternative would have been demanding a surrender but stating that The Emperor will remain as a constitutional monarch - which is what the US ended up imposing anyway because it was the logical way to forestall resistance from a radicalized population. Such a demand would likely have resulted in a surrender before the atomic bombings.
- otherme123 2y agoWe have records of Japanese high rank military wanting to keep fighting after the dropping of the second bomb. They figured out the USA might have a couple more nukes, so Japan should endure them four and keep fighting. As said in other threads, it was the nukes and the soviets invading what finally forced the surrender.
- keiferski 2y agoThe earliest surrender request wasn't merely just for the emperor to stay in power. Japan also wanted to keep the territories they had acquired and manage all post-war trials of the military in-house. Any American general or politician that agreed to these terms would have been seen as a fool or a coward, especially after Pearl Harbor, Bataan, Singapore, etc.