The article talks about this. It says Japan hoped that Soviet Union being neutral would help negotiate terms of conditional surrender with the allies. But Soviet Union then declaring war on Japan evaporated this possibility.
True, but I was moreso pointing out that the only people who really believed this were the holdout radicals, and two of their votes were preventing the military from issuing a capitulation order. Even Hirohito was exhausted by that point. Everyone wanted to surrender, but the tiny amount of holdout votes prevented the war from ending a few weeks earlier.
The article talks about this. It says Japan hoped that Soviet Union being neutral would help negotiate terms of conditional surrender with the allies. But Soviet Union then declaring war on Japan evaporated this possibility.
True, but I was moreso pointing out that the only people who really believed this were the holdout radicals, and two of their votes were preventing the military from issuing a capitulation order. Even Hirohito was exhausted by that point. Everyone wanted to surrender, but the tiny amount of holdout votes prevented the war from ending a few weeks earlier.