There's a lot more to it than that. Just for starters, there was a short lived coup in the military to try to keep it going. Tons going on in those last few days of the war on the Japanese side, and even if you had perfect knowledge of everything, it wasn't obvious that they would surrender.

[–] Gradually_Adjusting 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I could never claim to summarise even five minutes of WWII with a couple of sentences, but my point is that it's hardly fair to characterise Japan as "ain't heard no bell"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I mean maybe not all of Japan but like.... But there are definitely some Japanese soldiers who were insistent that they really didn't want to hear any idea of surrender

[–] Gradually_Adjusting 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Literal outlier

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

A fantastic outlier