However, by 1945 the Japanese were ready to surrender. Their singular issue with the set of terms the Allies had sent them was that they were being forced to remove their emperor. Posted By: Anonymous The bombings were both unnecessary, as well as hypocritical. First off people on the opposition, while I do appreciate their views, require a bit more research into the subject. I know as a personal fact that American history books like to play up our role in Japan's surrender. However this is not the case, in most history books around the globe the decisive factor in Japan's surrender was the Soviet Unions entry in the pacific front. At the time Japan's military power was pretty much nonexistent, their air-force as well as navy was in ruins. The economy was also a wreck and many people were starving; America had no reason to invade. Also many of you claim Japan was not willing to surrender, I'm assuming many of you have no idea of how the Japanese political system worked back then. Too oversimplify it for you Japan had the Emperor and his advisers, in order to officially declare a surrender the Emperor and the advisers had to vote unanimously; obviously having a unanimous vote takes a lot of time, during this process America promptly dropped the bombs. There is also the fact that the bombing was commenced due to a mistranslated. Many American history books state that, when the government was asked their opinion about surrender