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Originally Posted by Enkidu22
Well the truth is we will never know what US politics were really thinking, or if Japan would surrender if they didn't use A-bomb and negociate instead. It's a very hard subject and there aren't any hard evidences for either of our teories, which means we will just stick to our opinions.
But my opinion is: US just didn't try to end war without killing innocent people. They didn't care that Japan would never agree to put Hirohito on trial, they preffered to just force them with carpet bombing and A-bomb, killing hundreds of thousands civilians and burning cities to the ground. They didn't try to negociate nor try to understand japanese mentality and beliefs. They simply wanted to make Hirohito an asian Hitler and sentence him in show-off trial. If Swiss diplomats in Japan didn't started to negociate on their own it's possible that war would end a lot later.
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There were never any plans to put Hirohito on trial. First, he was just a figurehead... Tojo was the one really in charge, along with the generals and admirals. All of the anti-Japanese propaganda in the US centered on Tojo, not Hirohito. Second, it was felt leaving the Emperor as a figurehead would keep the populace calmer, and maybe he could even be convinced to go along with some of the rebuilding efforts and such.