In WWII did Japan infact surrender b4 we dropped the A-bomb?

Question

my friend told me they surrendered and we actually agreed to their surrender terms b4 dropping the atomic bomb.Is that true?

Answer 1

Your friend is lying to you or is an idiot, either way, what he has told you is in no way true.

Think of the logic behind such an action. Were it to have happened the Japanese would have resolved to force an invasion of their country rather than yield to a nation that had lied to them.  

Answer 2

Most high ranking officers wanted to because it was almost 100% sure that they would lose the war so they either killed them self's or surrendered but emporor did not want to surrender.

Answer 3

No. That is completely false.  The Emperor was ready to fight to the last man to defend his country.  He was having the locals being trained to fight.

Even after the 2 bombs were dropped his still did not want to accept being beaten and still wanted to fight on.  Luckily for the everyone he didn't have the final say in the matter.

It was estimated that in Operation Downfall (the allied forces landing in Japan) that there would be millions of American casualties and tens of millions of casualties for the Japanese.

Answer 4

No, they did not. They refused to negotiate and planned to do the 'honorable' thing and fight to the death. Dropping the bomb killed some people, but it saved countless others - both Japanese and Allied.  

Answer 5

No they did not in fact the emperor did not want to surrender even after the 2 A-Bomb was dropped he chided the generals as they overrode his decision and signed the papers surrendering.  

Answer 6

While you are correct that there was a Japanese peace faction active in August 1945, I think that you are overstating the inevitablity of its prospects of bringing about a Japanese surrender in the near-term. In August 1945, it was not clear from either a Japanese or Allied perspective that the peace faction would prevail. The Japanes military was deeply and even violently divided.

One needs to remember that the very night before the surrender an attempted coup was underway designed to prevent the surrender announcement from going through. The Emperor was to be isolated "for his own good" in or to prevent him from coming under the further influence of "defeatists". Ironically, one of the reasons the coup failed was that a US air raid on that very last night of the war had prompted Japanese power stations to cut off electricity in order to create blackout conditions. The blackout thwarted the conspirators efforts to locate and destroy recordings of the Emperor's surrender message. Had the recording been located, there would have been no surrender announcement the following morning and history might have unfolded very differently.

Note, I'm not arguing that Japan's defeat was not inevitable, I'm simply pointing out that its surrender in August 1945, even after Nagasaki, was NOT inevitable.

Answer 7

No. It was known that they were discussing it but they were too late

Answer 8

No, that's something revisionist historian teach but they're wrong.  The Japanese did not surrender before the first bomb was dropped and didn't even agree to surrender until 6 days after the second one was dropped.  During those 6 days there were some who wanted to overthrow the Emperor if he decided to surrender, many in the Japanese military wanted to fight on to the last person.