This is the US foreign policy establishment’s most important publication admitting it.

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    4 months ago

    The article talks about this. It says Japan hoped that Soviet Union being neutral would help negotiate terms of conditional surrender with the allies. But Soviet Union then declaring war on Japan evaporated this possibility.