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Originally Posted by floatingslowly
although surely that didn't help them any, as it's been pointed out above, the japanese showed a determinacy to fight to last woman and child against bullets and (normal) bombs.
manchuria was far away from home. I'm sure that the psychological toll of bombs falling on the japanese mainland shook them up far greater than the loss of this somewhat newly acquired territory.
what's more, at this point, russian's military had suffered devastating losses on the western front. they repelled the nazis, but not without a HUGE cost. the invasion on manchuria was an opportunistic strike on their part to get what they could (while they could).
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The Japanese high command must have been aware of the huge Russian losses and realized that they were now up against a foe similar to themselves. They were in charge of propaganda, they knew the allies were humane for the most part. They knew surrendering to the allies was a much better scenario for them than ending up under the Russian boot...imho.