Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Gwamnatin Japan ta ƙi kiran da aka yi na mika wuya ba tare da wani sharadi ba, wanda ya yi imanin cewa zai iya yin shawarwari don samun mafi kyawun yanayin mika wuya. A farkon watan Agusta, Amurka ta jefa bama-baman nukiliya a biranen Japan na Hiroshima da Nagasaki. Tsakanin hare-haren bam guda biyu, Soviets, bisa ga yarjejeniyar Yalta, sun mamaye Manchuria da Japan ke gudanarwa kuma da sauri suka kayar da Kwantung Army, wanda shine mafi girman sojojin Japan. Wadannan abubuwan biyu sun shawo kan shugabannin sojojin Imperial da suka gabata don karɓar sharuddan mika wuya. Sojojin Red sun kuma kama kudancin tsibirin Sakhalin da tsibirin Kuril. Ranar 15 ga watan Agusta, 1945, Japan ta mika wuya
, tare da takardun mika wuya da aka sanya hannu a Tokyo Bay a kan jirgin Amurka USS "Missouri" a ranar 2 ga Satumba, 1945, ya kawo karshen yakin.