Bruce, all I was objecting to was a "popular" whatever
the Japanese people had no say so - no opinion - nothing -- they would have fought to their deaths if the Emperor had decided the other way
>>>These twin shocks caused Emperor Hirohito to intervene and order the Big Six to accept the terms the Allies had set down in the Potsdam Declaration for ending the war. After several more days of behind-the-scenes negotiations and a failed coup d'état, Hirohito gave a recorded radio address to the nation on August 15. In the radio address, called the Gyokuon-hoso (Jewel Voice Broadcast), he read the Imperial Rescript on surrender, announcing to the Japanese populace the surrender of Japan.<<<
the Emperor decided -- we can be forever thankful
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