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Nichtcrawler X posted...

From what I have understood, the US had intel that Japan was a matter of weeks away from surrendering to the Soviets, but they preferred Japan to surrender to them.

That's not how it worked. The Allies agreed at both Cairo and Potsdam that there would be no individual terms of victory. Defeated enemies surrendered to the US, USSR, and UK together and nobody was allowed to prematurely set terms for their own benefit.

Whether OP is trolling or not, English language teaching of WWII does a poor job of contextualizing Japan's Empire. They didn't have the same need for specific death camps that lets people easily conceptualize the Holocaust. They just spread their terror over the entire Asian continent and wiped out villages or littered corpses through the jungle on death marches or just turned people into slaves that they disappeared when they weren't useful. Japan deserved everything that happened to it and it was a good thing they were defeated.