Are there any Japanese historians here? ( Archived) (6)

I read the Memoirs of the CIA-Chief Colby,and he claims that the Japanese had approached Stalin about a possible Armistice,but that Stalin wanted Sakhalin and the Kuriles back,so he never informed the Western Allies about it.
The after the Bomb was dropped,he declared War on Japan,and occupied those Islands,also went for Manchuria.

On 9 August 1945, the Soviet army launched a classic double envelopment of Japanese-occupied Manchuria. Col David M. Glantz, US Army, retired, one of the most knowledgeable American historians of Soviet operations during World War II, has again produced a masterpiece. In the more than 800 pages of this two-volume set—the most comprehensive English account of a series of lighting attacks carried out on three axes over a 3,000-mile front—he explains all ground action in the campaign. The operational and tactical volume explores 10 actions in close-up detail. Glantz’s description of this campaign as a graduation exercise for the bloodied, battle-hardened Red Army may be the most appropriate label for this relatively unknown operation. Coming on the heels of the atomic blast at Nagasaki, these military operations in mainland Asia have previously attracted little attention from Western military historians.

I saw a documentary on Atomic bomb attack. HJ.....the Japanese military feared the Emperor would begin negoiations and bascially placed him under house arrest after the first one was dropped.

So yes there is maybe some truth to the story.

But by placing him under house arrest.....he was not able to form a group of Japanese Adminstrators to negotiate for peace till after the second one was dropped.

It was clear after that happened, the military could not longer protect the country...the miltiary 'lost face'....a big issue in Japan at the time that was still adhering to the code of the Samuri.....and then the few Japanese doves could negotiate for peace.

Think it will work for Iran? If we can get Ahermanjada to lose face? Guess not.....

800 pages is a little much...maybe the Cliff Note Version?