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Originally Posted by Enkidu22
Same after the second one. Japanese government first debated capitulation on 22 july so before the A-bombs. They agreed when Truman accepted their demands to leave Hirohito alone and let him keep his throne, and it was all thanks to the Swiss ambasador who negociated with japanese government and convinced Truman that's it's the only way. US politics just didn't care, they would just bomb Japan back to the stone age rather than negociate.
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It took the Emperor to make the deciding vote to decide to surrender. After two A-bombs were dropped on two cities, half of the Japanese leadership wanted to continue to fight...which essentially was suicide, but by the code of bushido, was the honorable way to go.
I don't quite understand your last sentence. Truman was NOT interested in killing as many Japanese as possible. Quite the opposite. He knew the leadership, especially Toho (who I think was out by then, but I could be wrong) would lead every man, woman, and child to their deaths unless it was shown they would be killed without dying in battle. Where is JAPAN'S responsibility in this argument?