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47. Thus the fear of a Communist Revolution was the driving force behind the surrender

Thus my comment about the Nissan Steel Strike of 1954, it was an attack on the left wing independent unions of Japan under the disguise of fighting communism.

In the Summer of 1945 Japan was in a tough situation. Surrender to the US or leave the Russians take Japan. The Japanese leadership was hoping for a US-USSR war in Europe so they could get the three things they needed to defend Japan, 1 Modern planes, the Russian Yaks were as good as anything the West had, 2, Pilots, Russian Pilots were as good as any in the world at that time period, 3. Fuel for those planes, something Russia had and Japan did not.

As I said the US-USSR was more a hope by the Japanese leadership then an actual plan. The actual plan was an ultimatum from Stalin, then a surrender to Manchuria to Russia, maybe even Korea and Stalin convincing the US NOT to go invade the Japanese Home Islands. Neither option was realistic but it is typical of right wing fanatics and that is who was ruling Japan in 1945.

Since the end of the Cold War, the Russian have released some of their plans for WWII, including their plan invasion of the Northern Most Japanese main island set for November 1, 1945, the same date as the US invasion of the Southern Most Main island. Given Russia had regains all of Sakhalin island, it would have been a simple trip and that most northern most island was badly defended in 1945 (Most Japanese forces were on the Southern Islands to defend against a US attack). US plans included an invasion of the Main Island south of Tokyo on March 1, 1946. Thus the Russians could have invaded the Main Island first for Japan was looking at US invasion forces not Russian Invasion Forces.

Such an invasion was what Japan feared the most and given the situation, Japan could not expect to defeat the Russians even if the Russians landed troops BEFORE the Americans did. Thus the fear of a Russian Invasion supported by a Communist revolt (which had happened in Romania in August 1944, Stalin said it saved six months off the war).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_occupation_of_Romania

Thus Japan was looking into ways to avoid being Romania, and they had an option Romansia did not have, the US Fleet, thus they surrendered.