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Originally Posted by Ronin4hire
It wasn't unthinkable. The Japanese offered avenues to surrender prior to 1945. The Americans didn't take them up on it though.
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Yes, that is why some higher ups in the Japanese command tried to stage a coup in order to steal the recording of the emperors surrender message to the Japanese people so that they would not be able to hear it in hopes that Japan would continue to fight on despite the dropping of two atom bombs. The fact of the matter is, is that those who were calling the shots would have preferred national suicide to surrender.