[Oztrich Boy]

The Japanese were looking to surrender for months. All that they wanted was to be able to keep their emperor as figurehead

And a excuse to surrender without losing face. Which they got.

[Dayatdabeach1791]

In the final days of the war, the Jap emperor was about to talk directly to the people for the first time and tell them to lay down their arms. (The emperor figurehead was actually Ivy league educated) When the generals found out about his plans to surrender they contemplated killing him.