It’s pretty wrong. He didn’t realize a mistake. He killed himself because he was a coward and had lost. Also, it was only the end of the war in Europe. Japan was still fighting.
Also, the Atomic bomb didn’t and the war in Japan. It took two of those and a very real threat of the Soviets invading from the north to convince the emperor to surrender and even then there was a coup to try and stop him.
It’s pretty wrong. He didn’t realize a mistake. He killed himself because he was a coward and had lost. Also, it was only the end of the war in Europe. Japan was still fighting.
Also, the Atomic bomb didn’t and the war in Japan. It took two of those and a very real threat of the Soviets invading from the north to convince the emperor to surrender and even then there was a coup to try and stop him.
Also the implicit threat of the second bomb was “we can do this every day”. No one knew they barely scraped together three bombs.
Yeah, the common portrayal is they ended the war but, like everything, it’s much more complicated than that.
He realized he fucked up