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Now, the timing of Japan’s surrender would have consequences for the Soviet role in the postwar occupation. Sumihisa Ikeda had observed in his conversation with Prime Minister Suzuki, “The greater the delay in making the final decision, the worse the situation will be for us.” He meant that the Japanese now faced a quandary in which the longer they took to acknowledge the necessity of surrender, the greater the risk that the Soviet Union would claim a role in governing Japan. Many in the regime feared the growth of communist influence in Japan even more than the prospect of surrendering to the
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