>>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).

Yeah; if you think "surrender" equates to splitting up Asia between them and the Soviets, as the "Magic Summaries" detailed.

And if the Soviets actually believed that Japan was trying to surrender, why did they invade Manchuria right after Hiroshima and the day before Nagasaki was bombed?

>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.

But Japan sent a formal message refusing the surrender on July 25, and told it's citizens to ignore the Potsdam Declaration. So obviously that "surrender" didn't work.
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