I have been reading "Downfall" about the very end of the Pacific war, and although I haven't yet finished it, it hints that the Japanese were mostly convinced that the American A-bombs would render any invasion of Kyushu unnecessary. That is the ultimate reason they surrendered, plus some shrewd diplomatic manuevering in which the USA made it clear to Japan that "unconditional surrender" still meant that the Emperor would stay in place, rather than suffer the fate of Hitler, which is what most of the Japanese ruling junta imagined.

 

The Japanese military was planning to bet all their chips on one roll of the dice in Kyushu. Their military buildup prior to the dropping of the A-bombs on the island represented more than half their total land forces on the archipelago (with most of the remainder definding the Tokyo Plain). The overall Japanese strategy was to so bleed the invading Americans that they would seek some kind of settlement short of unconditional surrender.

 

The Russian invasion of Manchuria was just the icing on the cake. Even though the Japanese forces in Manchuria were some of Japan's best and most experienced, they were effectively cut off from the homeland due to the immense losses in Japanese shipping. Their fuel shortages also rendered them basically a static force. When the Soviets attacked, the Japanese could neither manuever, nor withdraw. They were sitting ducks. Had the Russians wanted to invade Hokkaido, they would have found very little opposition, but there's the question of just how exactly they would transport an amphibious force. The Russians did not have a large navy at this point, nor any formations that were suited to this purpose.

It's actually fact that the Japanese surrendered because of the Russians, despite what the Americans want us to all believe.

The Japanese had previously stated that they could not handle a war on multiple fronts, since their army had been massacred by the Americans AND, my people, the Australians (across Kokoda, where the Japanese suffered one of their biggest defeats and the Americans were humiliated beyond all belief )

Once the Americans had bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese were going to continue to fight. The Americans offered a peace treaty after the bombings (which should actually be classified as a war crime-Genocide) AND THE JAPANESE REFUSED!!! it wasn't until three days later when the Russians threatened to invade from the North that the Japanese surrendered.

So, technically, it could have been any army to invade the South of Japan, the bombing was never necessary, all that was needed was one other country to threaten to invade, from a different direction, and the war would have been over, without hundred's of thousands of CIVILIANS being killed.

Sorry...I can get a bit carried away, and i often make mistakes in that instance...Surrendered is what i meant...

Where did you learn your world history? You seem to have half of it mixed up!

We should remember that the Japanese end game strategy included a diplomatic effort aimed at making a separate peace with the USSR. The Japanese stalled the West as long as they still thought there was a chance to use the USSR as a peace broker. The Soviets allowed the Japanese to persist in this dillusion while they prepared to transfer their divisions out of Europe to the East.

 

It does not take much imagination to see that a prolongation of final stage of the war would open the door to a Soviet occupation of Japanese home territory with the eventuality of at least part of Japan becomimg an Iron Curtain vassal state of the USSR. Also, the Red Army had demonstrated in East Prussia a complete lack of inhibition when it came to butchering enemy civilians. Finally, the Red Army had very little feeling of humanity as regards the lives of its own troops whom it could feed into a meat grinder fight without compunction.

 

I believe that the Macado came to see that the costs of delayed surrender in terms of the inevitable peace were such as to risk the viability of the Japanese nation. As with the attack on Pearl Harbor allowing Roosevelt a means of justification for entering the war, the atomic bombs provided like means to the Macado for avoiding an invasion which could be lethal to the Japanese nation.

I agree with your assessment regarding the Marcado who was very wise.

Given that he sanction the attack on USA!

The captains of Japanese industry celebrated on news of the surrender as they preferred the Amercan Industrialist

to the Communist.

Which was the genocide the 300,000 deaths in the Tokyo fire bombings or the 2 atomic attacks with 150,000 deaths.

The genocides were the Death Marchs forced on the Allied POWs.  buzzard.