World war II, Pacific War 1941-45
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World War II, Pacific War 1941-45
Premise
- From 1932-37 China was having a civil war. Both Japan and Far Eastern Republic are interfering, Japan helping facist clique that attempts to restore the Chinese empire and Far Eastern Republic is aiding both Communists and the Chinese republicans.
- In 1937 the Japanese supported clique manages to oust the Chinese republic and the Chinese empire re-emerges as a vassal empire of Japan
- 1937 Krasnochekov is replaced by Mateyev as a Far Eastern Republics Premier.
- Series of border conflicts occurred in the vast border regions between the Far Eastern Republic and China during 1937-41.
- Both sides are preparing for war.
Japanese wargoals
Japan planned to form a “East-Asian co-prosperity sphere” which would mean japanese controlled east asia, free from western colonial rule and communism. This would provide Japan with a vast resource base and markets for japanese industry. Key objectives were the control of China and Southeast Asian resource rich islands. The major obstacle was the Far Eastern Republic which was after the same areas with the intent to spread communist ideology throughout Asia.
With the control of China secured in 1937 Japanese interest was turned into the south. However from strategical point, the existence of Far Eastern ruled Philippines posed a major threat to Japanese supply lines as it was expected that the new harsh line leadership in Khabarovsk would not remain idle if Japan would move against the South East Asian islands. Thus it became clear that the extermination of the Far Eastern Republic and its communist ideology would be the most important element of creating the “Co-prosperity sphere”.
With the start of the Second World War in 1939 Japan suddenly found itself in a window of opportunity to move against its targets. With the western Powers tangled up in a war against Germany, Japan would have freedom of concentrating its full war effort against the Far Eastern Republic. Japan made its first move by invading French Indochina September 1940 which led the UK, Dutch government-in-exile and the United States to impose an oil-embargo on Japan. This forced Japan to start planning the invasion of Dutch East Indies with considerable oil production and Japan allied with Germany and Italy and began to plan simultaneous attacks on Soviet Union and Far Eastern Republic.
Japanese attack 1941
Japan's war plan was to attack simultaneously against the Far Eastern Republic and seize the Dutch East Indies. Japan would set up defence perimeter by invading the south east asian and south pacific islands including those of Far Eastern Republic to counter western attempts to seize the areas back and remain offensive against Far Eastern Republic until it would capitulate. Japanese had thought that the fighting would be over before the harsh winter of the Far Eastern would stall any meaningful military maneuvers.
Japan and China attacked on 22th of June 1941 with a surprise attack against the Port Arthur naval base. This was meant to destroy the main elements of Far Eastern naval power. The attack was partially successful with the main bulk of old battleships and battlecruisers being either sunk or damaged. However the newer battleships and all of the Far Eastern aircraft carriers were located elsewhere. Attack on Port Arthur was followed by a full scale invasion by land from Korea and Northern China.
Japanese army planned to attack on 3 major attack routes, with two major initial objectives; Muravyov and Vladivostok. The attack against Muravyov came from two directions, from Northern China with mostly chinese troops and from Korea by the Japanese Kwantung Army. This pincer move would also cut the Dalny peninsula and isolate the major industrial center and naval port. The third major attack was made against Vladivostok from Korea as well. The goal was to destroy the main Far Eastern defence and fighting ability around Muravyov and Vladivostok and then move towards north and occupy the remains of the Far Eastern industrial centers and set on a defensive stand on the Khingan and Stanovoy mountain range. At the same time, the Philippines and the Primorye islands would be occupied alongside with the other Southeast Asian islands.
The Far Eastern Republic was taken completely by surprise. Far Eastern planners were certain that Japanese build-up was defensive preparing for a Far Eastern attack and that the Japanese main objective would be in Southeast Asia. The Far Eastern Republic had begun to secretly prepare for a pre-emptive attack on Japan since 1937 but the preparation had been merely theoretical. Lionshare of Far Eastern build-up had been on the naval side as it was thought that the naval confrontation with Japan would be more likely than full scale land war.
The ill-prepared and understrength units of People’s Revolutionary Army (PRA) were put on retreat on most parts of the frontline. Only the defences around Vladivostok were successful to halt the initial Japanese attack on the Battle of Khasan lake which halted Japanese advance towards Vladivostok for the rest of the war. However the other main Japanese attack directions managed to push forward and Far Eastern counter-attacks were constantly repelled. By the end of June, Dalny was cut off and the Japanese forces were preparing for a major offensive against Muravyov. In the following battles of Lihanks the japanese gained triumphal victory and managed to completely destroy two defending armies of PRA. Muravyov fell in August and Japanese attack kept pushing towards the north. Only the Dalny peninsula remained in Far Eastern control but was completely cut off by any supplies.
Japanese supply lines began to stretch out too long and Far Eastern defence began to intensify and finally proved successful and by September, Japanese attack was in stand-still just outside Sypin.
During the winter of 1941-42 Japan was forced to re-evaluate its attack plan on the Far Eastern Republic. Despite early success, Japanese advance was halted and the capitulation of Far Eastern troops were no were in sight. Also the steady flow of US supplies under the Lend-Lease act kept PRA and Far Eastern Republics industry working despite the loss of Murayvov and Dalny.
Japanese decided that it must cut out the supply routes to the Far Eastern Republic. In land it would be achievable by attacking north-west towards Chita and Lake Baikal which would cut the only railroad to Soviet Union and in seas it would be done by invading the Sakhalin and Kuril islands as well as the Kamchatka peninsula and Alaska.
Since the start of the war, Japanese navy was mainly tied down south to the invasion of South East Asia and other Pacific islands. Naval activity against Far Eastern People’s Revolutionary Navy (PRN) was minimal as the Far Eastern naval forces still intact from the initial blow to Port Arthur were kept in harbours. By the end of 1941 Japanese had consolidated their presence in the South and were available to move towards the Far Eastern Republic.
In the spring of 1942 Japanese began to land in the Kuriles and the Aleutians and by the end of the summer all of the Kuril islands were taken as well as several key points on the Aleutian island group. Japanese had already invaded the southern tip of the Sakhalin island since the start of the war. While the landings on the Kurils were still on the way, Japan planned to make a more massive amphibious attack on the northern part of Sakhalin which would effectively cut the most accessible Far Eastern ports if controlled by Japan. While the Japanese transport ships were on the way, they were attacked by aircraft from Far Eastern aircraft carrier Slavnyy. This led Japanese to send two of their own fleet carriers into the area which resulted in the Battle of Okhotsk Sea.
The Battle of Okhotsk Sea was the first carrier-vs-carrier naval battle and resulted in one Japanese light carrier sunk and the two fleet carriers, Shokaku and Zuikaku damaged. PRN lost the carrier Dal'nevostochnyy Kommunist and Slavnyy slightly damaged. On the strategic side it was a victory for the Far Eastern Republic as it cancelled the japanese attack on Northern Sakhalin and forced the two Japanese fleet carriers out of action in the upcoming Battle of Petropavlovsk.
Japanese admiral Yamamoto was convinced that in order to succeed in the naval blockade on the Far Eastern Republic, the remaining strength of PRN, specially the carriers in the “Light Squadron” needed to be destroyed. Yamamoto seeked decisive battle where the majority of Japanese naval forces would engage the PRN units.
Yamamoto’s plan was to launch a similar airstrike against the Petropavlovsk Naval base as had been done against the Port Artur year earlier. Yamamoto counted that there would be only 3 operational carriers in Petropavlovsk.
Japanese attack force was built around aircraft carriers Akagi, Kaga, Soryu and Hiryu. Japanese plan was to keep an eye on the PRN movements around Petropavlovsk naval base but were unaware that the Light Squadron had departed the naval base and was heading for the sea to meet the aggressors. Far Eastern code-breakers had discovered japanese plan and PRN sended all available carrier’s to counter Japanese. Japanese carrier force began its attack against the port on the morning of June 3rd. While japanese were conducting their attacks on the port they spotted that the Light Squadron had left the port and had only minor warships docked. Japanese Admiral Nagumo ordered his air fleet back to ships for preparation for a land attack mission to bomb the port facilities at Petropavlovsk which were considered the secondary task for the mission.
While Japanese are re-arming, the attack planes from 4 Far Eastern carriers, Slavnyy, Smelyy, Besstrashnyy and Popedonosnyy are already heading towards the Japanese ships. The initial torpedo bomber attack was repelled but the dive-bombers that followed attacked Kaga, Akagi and Soryu which all were hit several times and eventually sunk. Japanese counter-attack from Hiryu managed to attack on Slavnyy which initially survived the dive-bombers thanks to its armored flight deck but was hit several torpedoes and sunk later on. Later during the day Far Eastern planes found the last remaining Japanese carrier Hiryu which was sunk as well.
The battle was a triumphal victory for the Far Eastern Republic and a turning point in the war. PRN had now the initiative to conduct actions as the balance in carrier strength had tilted towards the Far Eastern Republic.
Meanwhile in the spring of 1942 Japanese launched major offensives on all land fronts but made only little advance. Only the attacks on the north-western section gained any ground but the attack on Chita was halted on the outskirts of Ulanbatoor and Hulun and Buir lake areas. The war in the land for the most part of 1942-43 evolved into trench warfare. Only the limited scale attacks and counter attacks on the “Desert front” changed the frontline back and forth.
Kuril and Aleutian campaigns 1942-44
After the Battle of Petropavlovsk, Far Eastern forces were confident enough to start offensive maneuvers against the Japanese. The general war leadership had decided that in order to win the war, Japan must be occupied as their fighting spirit would not break down by merely winning the war on the continent. Thus recapturing the Kuril Island would be imperative to secure staging points to launch the invasion.
Kuril Islands were a series of small volcanic, mostly uninhabitable islands between Hokkaido and Kamchatka peninsula. The Far Eastern Republic had built up considerable defences only in the two southernmost islands Urup and Shimushir of which only the former had an existing airfield. It was discovered that the Japanese were staging troops and building an airfield on Paramushir Island, on the largest of the northern Kuril islands. This would seriously threaten the naval port of Petropavlovsk and the lend-lease supply routes from the United States.
Far Eastern naval infantry landed on the island on 7th of August and for the next following 6 months fierce fighting over the control of the Island erupted. Japanese considered the island as a priority target and kept sending reinforcements and resupply to the Island. Eventually Japanese decided to withdraw in February 1943 as they felt holding Paramushir was no longer a viable strategy. In the course of the six month battles, several major naval skirmishes took place with heavy loss on ships on both sides. During the summer of 1943, the Far Eastern Republic remained offensive and occupied the northern Kuril islands down to Simushir and took over the Aleutians islands that were under Japanese control.
The United States entered the war on the allied side in 1943 which dramatically changed the course of the war. Japanese fate was sealed as it was now facing overwhelming odds. For the Far Eastern Republic the US entry to the war was not seen solely as a positive turn of events as it would mean that the race towards the occupation of Japanese mainland would be evident as both sides wished to secure the best possible post-war standpoint. US entry was partially motivated by the harsh demands of the Far Eastern Republic made over Japan and the fear that if the Far Eastern Republic would emerge as the sole victor of the Pacific war, the fate of the whole Asia would be in the communist hands.
In the spring of 1944, The Far Eastern Republic resumed its advance on the Kuril island chain and targeted the Southern group of the islands. Japanese resistance became increasingly fierce as the Far Eastern naval infantry closed in the main islands. Japanese decided to seek a decisive battle against the Far Eastern naval forces which would be their only chance to prevent Far Eastern advance on the island chain. This opportunity came when the Far Eastern Republic began the land on the island of Iturup. Japanese gathered all of their remaining carrier forces and sent them to face the Light Squadron.
The following battle of North-Pacific Ocean or Battle of Southern Kurils was the last major carrier-vs-carrier battle in the war. It was also the largest carrier battle if counted by the number of ships and aircrafts participating. Japanese launched 4 massive airstrikes which were mostly ineffective and intercepted by the Far Eastern fighters. Japanese had lost most of their experienced carrier air groups in the exhausting battles of the North Kuriles and the newly formed units were no match to the superior Far Eastern forces. Japanese carrier aviation force was basically exterminated in the massive air-combat that took place. In the Far Eastern counter-strike, japanese carrier Hiyo was sunk and two other, Taiho and Shokaku were sunked by Far Eastern submarines over the course of the battle. The battle delivered a devastating blow to the Japanese fleet from which it was unable to recover. It’s carrier force was reduced to one operational fleet carrier but even more serious blow was the loss of aircrafts and trained pilots to fly them.
The Kuril campaign culminated in the spring of 44’ when Iturup was taken. The Far Eastern Republic decided to use the Iturup and its Kasatka Bay as a main staging area for the eastern part of the up-comming invasion of Hokkaido.
Khalkhin Gol and the tide changes
Japanese and Chinese troops launched a massive spring offensive in May 6th 1942 on all fronts but these attacks were rebelled on almost all sections aside in the vast and sparsely defended north-west front. Japanese mechanised units drove the Far Eastern defenders up to river Kherlen where the Japanese attack was finally halted in late june. Late summer and autumn of 42’ saw fierce but inconclusive battles alongside the vast mogolian steppes and deserts with neither side gained any meaningful breakthrough. Japanese supply lines were badly overextended and despite minimal resources of the Far Eastern defenders, further advance was cancelled.
Meanwhile the Far Eastern Republic begun to recover from the initial blow and the large industrial base that had been built during the Krasnochekov’s era started to bring fruits. Military production had multiplied considerably despite Japanese ceding two major industrial centers of Dalny and Muravyov. The victory in the naval battle of Petropavlovsk gave the Far Eastern Republic a morale boost and self-confidence to begin to take the initiative also in the land theatre. It was decided to strike the Japanese over-stretch front in the north-west. Throughout the winter of 42-43’ the PRA started to build up massive forces in the Chita and Khingan mountain range. The plan was to attack against the japanese main strength in the area, the 6th army based in the area between Hulun and Buir lake and isolate them.
Japanese, despite being aware of the troop concentrations, did not expect an attack on such a massive scale. Far Eastern units launched an attack from the north towards the Japanese units on 11th of May 1943 but these attacks were for the most part defeated by the 6th army. Far Eastern units kept attacking Japanese until June in a series of attacks which at first hand seemed to be pointless waste of resources. However PRA’s strategy was to tie down the 6th army into the Hulun lake and consume its supplies. Japanese launched their own counter attacks during the July under the mislead assumption that Far Eastern troops were ineffective in their ability to resist japanese. However these attacks were pushed back by the PRA Hulun front.
On August 20th PRA’s newly formed 1st and 3rd tank armies attacked the Japanese rear from Hinggan to the section of the front guarded by mostly Chinese units of the 15th army of the Imperial Chinese Army. Far Eastern troops crushed the defences of the Chinese troops and began to encircle the japanese units stationed around the Hulun lake. Japanese now seeing the plan of PRA begun immediately retreat but their escape routes were already cut. In the following battle of Khalkhin Gol the 6th Army of the Kwantung Army was completely annihilated.
The battle of Khalkhin Gol became the turning point of the war. Not only were the japanese best and most initiative army completely destroyed, the whole north-west front section was now open and unguarded and the PRA quickly used the opportunity. Through the Autumn of 43’ Far Eastern troops advanced on the whole “desert front” closing in to the original border of the Far Eastern Republic and China.
After the collapse of the Northwest front Japanese were forced to regroup and send troops to patch up the broken lines in the west. This gave PRA an opportunity to launch the second part of the counter-offensive planned after 1942. This was launched in October 1943 in all of the major fronts simultaneously. Their goal was to recapture Muravyov and releaf Dalny pocket. The counter-offensive, known as “Red October” was successful for the most part and Japanese troops were forced to retreat. Muravyov was captured in November. Despite the trend in earlier winters of the war which saw only limited offensive operations, Far Eastern attack was not stopped and instead kept pushing forward despite the winter approaching. This gave Japanese no room to breathe and during the December 1943-January 1944 the siege of the Dalny peninsula was relieved. This also cut the Japanese fronts by half to the Korean based and to the ones in China. Through the winter of 44, PRA extended the breakthrough in Dalny Peninsula into the Yalu river line in Northern parts of Korea peninsula.
Japanese were now facing a situation where the changes on succeeding to capitulate to the Far Eastern Republic were gone. Their invasion into the Far Eastern continent was pushed back and the war had turned into a defensive stand as Japanese knew no lenient peace would be possible to achieve. Japan decided to abandon its offensive role in the land theatre and dug in on the ground they still held, mostly focusing their defences on Korea. Japan practically left China on its own as most of the units on Chinese side of the front were shipped back either to the main island or to Korean Peninsula. Japanese knew that their only change now was to make the war as costly as possible to the enemy.
Invasion of Hokkaido 1944
After the Battle of Petropavlovsk, Far Eastern military leadership drew a battle plan of how to defeat Japan. Initially the plan called for complete victory in the mainland including Korea before landings would be made against the Japanese mainlands. While the PRA prepared the main offensives of the 43's, PRN would secure the Kuril Islands and create a staging area to launch invasion on the pacific side of Japanese main islands.
However events of 1943 changed the priorities of the overall plan. Firstly the United States entry to the war meant that the war would most likely be over sooner than initially estimated. It also meant that the Far Eastern Republic would no longer be the sole occupier of the Japanese and Chinese lands at the end of the war. In a sense it created a situation where the two major belligerents on the Allied side, US and FER, would race for the spoils of what would remain from the Axis nations. Also the collapse of Japanese front in summer of 43 and the unexpected success of the “Red October” campaign meant that Japanese capability to launch any meaningful land offensive was seriously hampered.
Thus the Far Eastern Republic decided to move against the main islands of Japan earlier than planned. The campaign to recapture the Kurils were hastened and by the spring of 1944 most of the Kuril islands and the southern part of Sakhalin were secured. The first target in the Japanese home islands would be the northern island of Hokkaido. Japanese had fortified the coast of Hokkaido on the Tartar strait side pretty much in all possible landing spots and thus making the landing on the western side of Japan extremely challenging. However PRN chose to attack on the eastern coast towards the town of Kushiro and Tomakomai which both lacked the heavy fortifications and coastal artillery as well as the town of Rumoi in the western side. Guarding the island was the Japanese 5th area army of about 115,000 men. The Far Eastern Republic assigned a total of 24 divisions to the invasion of the island. The Far Eastern Republic used most of the summer of 44 to prepare for the massive landing operation and kept bombarding various japanese ports mostly on the Sea of Japan side on the island to keep japanese uncertain where the next invasion attack would hit.
When Far Eastern naval infantry landed on Kushiro on October 20th 1944, Japanese decided to make one final attempt to prevent the invasion with naval forces. They mustered all available forces, mostly consisting of surface ships to attack the Far Eastern landing force. Japanese used their remaining, practically inoperable carrier-force as a decoy to lure the Light Squadron’s carriers away from defending the landing ships which were to be attacked by the japanese surface combatants. This plan partially worked but with the loss of practically all existing japanese carriers. However the surface units were unable to prevent the landings as the two japanese fleets moving towards the Hokkaido eastern shore in a pincer-move were intercepted and rebelled in the Tsugaru strait. Japanese losses were significant and the battle was the last major naval engagement in the war. The battle, known as Battle of Tsugaru strait, was the largest naval battle of the Second World War and arguably the largest naval battle ever fought.
After the initial landings, Far Eastern troops faced heavy resistant and furious counter attacks on both land and air with often by Kamikaze suicide attacks. However the naval infantry units held their beachheads and soon more and more troops poured in, specially to Tomakomai. From there the combined units of PRN and PRA moved towards Sapporo, the largest city of Hokkaido facing the Tartar strait. Sapporo fell after bloody street battles in February 1945 and the rest of the Island was secured towards the end of April.
The invasion of Hokkaido had proved out to be more exhausting than initially thought. Japanese resistance was frantic and often kept going on a desperate course. The battle over Hokkaido introduced the desperate suicide attacks on japanese repertuar, mostly conducted by the ‘Kamikaze’ attacks of Japanese air units against the Far Eastern invasion force.
Fall of China
After the battle of Khalkhin Gol and the subsequent fall of japanese defences in the north-west front left Chinese empire practically on their own. Japanese began to move its troops to Korea and the mainland leaving China responsible for the western front when the PRA cut the Japanese front in half.
The Empire of China was considered by many as a paper tiger, house of cards that was kept intact by the japanese support to the administration. China had serious internal disputes and the factions of the civil war were never completely annihilated prior the 1941 attack. As the war started against the Far Eastern Republic, mainly the communist partisans took over large areas in the rural china countryside which tied up considerable forces from the imperial chinese army to contain them.
The Far Eastern Republic knew that the chinese side was the softer and resolve attack would most likely collapse the chinese front faster than the fierce japanese defenders in the Korean section. Also The United States led western allies were closing in from the south and in early 44 had established beachheads on Indo-china and were targeting southern China and hoped to restore the Chinese Republic under Chiang Kai-shek into power. The Far Eastern Republic hoped to secure as much of China as possible and put it into the control of local Communists.
On 14th of April 1944, PRA launched a massive offensive against China on all fronts and the chinese defenses were overrunned. By the mid-May Far Eastern troops had encircled over 500,000 chinese troops in the massive Peking pocket which surrendered on June the 13th. After the fall of Peking and the subsequent capture of the Chinese Emperor Puyi de facto collapsed the Chinese puppet empire. Far Eastern troops poured into China mostly unresisted as the chinese imperial army’s morale was shattered and the majority of the force-conscripted troops fled the battlegrounds.
By the end of October, Far Eastern troops took over China roughly north of the Yangtze river including the cities of Shanghai, Wuhan and Chongqing whereas The United States led troops took over the southern parts. The Far Eastern Republic soon assigned the control of the Northern part of China to the chinese Communists despite the western allies demanding united China to be restored under the Chiang Kai-shek led Chinese Republic. Series of confrontations and small scale clashes began to emerge between the Chinese Communist and Kuomintang (Chinese republic) forces but at this point both The Far Eastern Republic and The United States ordered their representative proxies to cede all hostilities.
End of the war 1945
Ever since the entry of The United States into the war, there had been talks about what East Asia would look after the war would be over. Western powers were horrified about the prospect of completely communist ruled China and Japan and had in their interest of securing as much of China and Japan into their own sphere of influence as possible. The Far Eastern Republic refused constantly to allow any western occupation in Japan as it felt that the main burden of the fighting was done by them and the highest prize would be the control of Japan and free hands to mould it into the likings of the Far Eastern Communist Party.
Discussions about the post-war situations were set aside in the Tehran and Moscow conference but were put back on the table in the Yalta conference in February 1945. By now the Far Eastern Republic controlled the northern half of China and had foothold in Japan. The Far Eastern Republic was willing to discuss the division of China into Far Eastern and Western occupation zones but were still reluctant to allow any western presence in Japan. This accelerated US own plans to invade Japanese main islands from Southern China and US led troops launched an invasion towards the Ruykyu islands in April 1945. This infuriated Matveyev as Ryukyu islands were considered to be of great strategic importance to the Far Eastern Republic.
After the end of major hostilities in China, Far Eastern Republic moved to their last part of the war which aimed to assume control over Korea and Japanese mainland. in January 1945 the PRA launched major offensive against Japanese in Korea and despite heavy resistance, japanese lines were broken and Korea occupied by 16th of May 1945. This left only the Japanese main islands to be occupied.
As closer to the main islands Far Eastern military got, the heavier the resistance of the japanese defenders rose. Occupation of Hokkaido already demonstrated the fighting spirit of the japanese which often fought to the death despite being given the opportunity to surrender. This meant that the casualty rates for the Far Eastern troops would be massive. Some parts of the Far Eastern leadership suggested that instead of total invasion, Japan would starve to the point of surrender by extensive naval blockade and bombing campaigns. However the US troops were closing in from the south by securing the Ryukyu islands in june 1945. This forced the Far Eastern Republic to continue its invasion plan.
Plan was to attack from Hokkaido to the northern parts of Honshu and race towards Tokio. With the Korea peninsula now under Far Eastern control there was another possibility to launch the attack against the southern Island Kyushu and deprive the logical invasion route from the western allies. However, in order to get the war won quickly, the Far Eastern Republic chose the northern route. The landings were planned to start in early August 1945.
The United States was painfully aware that the race towards Tokio was lost. Far Eastern preparations and attack positions were so much superior compared to the american ones. Also the high casualty rates in the Okinawa campaign was a serious demoralizing factor in the homefront and the support for the war began to deteriorate. Thus President Truman decided to rely on the new highly secretive superweapon: The Atomic Bomb. The nuclear attack would have two major objectives; Force Japan to surrender conditionally and force the Far Eastern Republic into the negotiation table over the future of Japan and East Asia.
On August 6th US bombers dropped the first atomic bomb over Hiroshima. It failed in its primary purpose of making Japan surrender despite Japan knowing that the Far Eastern invasion was looming right behind the corner. However it was a huge psychological shock for the Far Eastern leadership as they had assumed that the US nuclear weapon program was still too far behind to produce workable bombs. Despite the shock from the bombing, PRN and PRA launched their invasion of Northern Honshu on 9th of august with landing on Mustu and Sendai. Few hours after the Far Eastern troops entered the island, The United States dropped another atomic bomb on Nagasaki.
After the information of the Far Eastern invasion and the second atomic bomb had reached Japanese leadership, they finally decided to surrender over the terms of the Potsdam conference which called for unconditional surrender of the Imperial Japanese regime. By this the US and Far Eastern delegation had agreed on principle over the future division of Japan into different occupation zones controlled by the Western allies and Far Eastern Republic. The war officially ended on 14th of August 1945.
