how did the Japanese Leaders feel after the atomic bomb in WW2?

Question

like idk. i need to find out like why they only surrendered after we dropped the second one in nagasuki. and like what did the leaders do and stuff.

Answer 1

Completely Defeated, and probably, "scared out of their wits."
Hence........the surrender shortly thereafter.

NOTE: As awful as it might have been, if the bomb would not have been dropped, more lives would have been lost of both sides as an invasion of Japan would have been imminent.

Answer 2

In point of fact the Emperor wanted to surrender before the bombs were dropped and negotiations were actually under way in Switzerland. The Japanese leadership was fragmented; sort of like our congress is today; no two people could agree on anything. The Japanese military and the Imperial Palace Guard were actually fighting and shooting and killing each other at this time. You are going to have to define what you mean by "Leaders" in order to get a definitve answer to this question.

Answer 3

They knew it was over. Tokyo had been firebombed into ash by wave after weave of US Bombers and was not much better off than Hiroshima. When they saw the destructive capability on three of the major cities in Japan they surrendered.

Dripto - where do you come up with that crap. The Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor to force America into the War. Admiral Isoruku Yamamoto, who lead the attack, said, "I'm afraid we have awakened a sleeping giant and filled it with terrible resolve." The Japanese were brutal (see Batan Death March) and read about the Japanese in China and Korea - then express an educated opinion instead of the BS you printed here.

Answer 4

Because of robust Japanese defenses and the topography of the islands themselves, an amphibious assault would have taken a heavy toll on U.S. forces. Military officials estimated that such an invasion might have incurred up to a million U.S. casualties, with corresponding Japanese military and civilian losses. Two fire bombing raids on Tokyo earlier in 1945 had already killed 140,000 citizens and injured a million more. The bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, then, might actually have spared hundreds of thousands of Japanese and American lives.

Read the rest of this article at the site below. It gives you an idea how the Japanese felt.

Answer 5

They argued and almost over through the emperor because the emperor wanted to surrender, plus others wanted to surrender before the Soviet Union entered the war. and Take Japanese lands which they did anyway some small islands north of Japan

Answer 6

They surendered the secound time because they didn't want to take any more chances for another bomb to drop. The first bomb they didn't surrender is probably because that they thought that they wouldn't do it again

Answer 7

Actually they did not care until the assassination of a fellow leader by a survivor of the atomic bomb then they had to submit before another overthrowing of there government, a civilian run democracy not a militaristic sad town of angry poor people in poor conditions.

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Answer 8

They ceased all war efforts. They were scared shtless because they literally had no idea what hit them. I saw an awesome documentary on HBO about survivors from the attack and it was very sad.

Answer 9

I am pretty sure a lot of them felt scorched from the nuclear heat.

Seriously, some of them were angered - American provoked them in the first place and then tested out their new weapons on innocent citizens. How the eff do you think they felt? Unfortunately cash is king. All the rich Japanese people (those were alive) were swayed by money or were threatened to just live on like they always had and couldn't really do much about it. If things were as you would expect them to be then Japan and America wouldn't have any trade agreements and you wouldn't find them on each other's soil....at least not alive.

Answer 10

They looked out the window and said, "Hey. Has anybody seen my truck?"