>they were not
>attempting to accept surrender.

Just another lie of Olympic-size
proportions. The Japanese govern-
ment had been pursuing Soviet me-
diation to end the war in response
to the Emperor's request of June 22,
1945, a fact often overlooked today.
(Butow, pg. 118-120, 130).

Having broken the code Japan used for
transmitting messages, the U.S. was
able to follow Japan's efforts to end
the war as it intercepted the messages
between Foreign Minister Togo and Japan's
Ambassador to Moscow Sato. The messages
were sent as the result of the June 22,
1945 Japanese Cabinet meeting.