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 biyu, Soviets, bisa ga yarjejeniyar Yalta, sun mamaye Manchuria da Japan ke rike da ita
Kuma da sauri ya ci Kwantung Army, wanda shi ne mafi girma Japan fama karfi. 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. A ranar 15 ga Agusta, 1945, Japan ta mika wuya, tare da takardun mika wuya a karshe da aka sanya hannu a Tokyo Bay a kan jirgin Amurka USS "Missouri" a ranar 2 ga Satumba, 1945, ya kawo karshen yakin.