The Japanese military infrastructure and capacity to wage effective war may
have already been destroyed, and sensible people would have quit under those
circumstances, but according to at least one Japan Times story the military
was quite willing to sacrifice the lives of all Japanese civilians rather
than stand the shame of living with those civilians after losing the war.

Most sources I know of talk about the resistance of the military to
surrender, and the uncommon action of the Emperor of resisting the military
on this matter.

in article , jake at
wrote on 12/18/03 1:34 PM:

On Thu, 18 Dec 2003 13:19:23 +0900, Ernest Schaal
wrote:


It is true that many in Japan were ready to surrender, but that didn't
really matter,

Very true ...
what mattered was that Toyko and the Japanese military infrastructure
and capacity to wage war had been already destroyed.