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Originally Posted by Sadistic-Savior
Probably. Explain why they were entitled to retain their emperor.
That response was insufficient. That is what "unconditional" means...without conditions.
The bombs seemed to motivate them to surrender unconditionally. Therefore, we were correct to use them.
I agree actually....they could have saved themselves a lot of unnecessary suffering and trouble by simply surrendering unconditionally to begin with. But the fault was their's. We provided them with the opportunity.
So to sum up: Your statement of "They were willing to [surrender]" was flat wrong. They were not willing to surrender without conditions.
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I don't feel like playing the separation game.
Anyways, if unconditional surrender was such a "high priority" to the United States government, then why were they allowed to retain their Emperor after the war ended? It didn't meet the requirements of an uncoditional surrender. Why didn't they enforce it? They didn't give a crap. Unconditional surrender was the only thing stopping peace. Not Japan's relentlessness or any other propaganda myth manifested by the government of the time period.