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...Emperor will be required to authorize and insure the signature by the government of Japan and the Japanese Imperial General Headquarters of the surrender terms necessary to carry out the provisions of the Potsdam declaration, and shall issue his commands to all the Japanese military, naval and air authorities and to all of the forces under their control wherever located to cease active operations and to surrender their arms, and to issue such other orders as the supreme commander may require to give effect to the surrender terms...
Radio Tokyo broadcast a high-command communiquí announcing renewed offensives on all fronts, then withdrew it. The Emperor called in Foreign Minister Togo. A Tokyo radio operator, chatting with a station in Switzerland, said that an important message was expected but still unfiled. The Japanese press played up two possible successors to Hirohito: his eleven-year-old son, Crown Prince Akihito, and his 40-year-old brother, Prince Takamatsu. Radio Tokyo referred vaguely but constantly to the comings & goings of the Emperor's elder statesmen...
...Japs and 300,000 puppet troops) had probably been increased to 1,000,000 by recent arrivals from China proper. Allied statesmen had long feared that the Kwantung Army would fight on, even after the home islands were conquered, had hoped that direct orders from the Emperor would persuade it to lay down its arms...
...dawn on Friday, but dusk for Dai Nippon. Emperor Hirohito had approved the surrender proposal to the Allies. Five days before, the Japanese radio still talked of 100 years' resistance, and there seemed little question of Japan's ability to hold out for months at least. Then in shattering succession came atomic bombing and the Russian declaration of war. The concussion destroyed more than Hiroshima and Nagasaki...
Waiting for Hirohito. Whether or not this report was wholly true, much of it certainly was. This was the background against which the Japanese mood, the feeling of the nation toward the war, and (in the absence of organized opposition to the warmakers) their special attitude toward the Emperor, might be viewed...