Kantarō Suzuki

Minister!

When the Potsdam Declaration was issued, there emerged a report in the newspaper that Prime Minister Suzuki was ignoring the Declaration.

But then, after that agreement, Togo had some other meeting and left the place.

And the militarists made a psychological coup.

And at the absence of Togo, they pushed pressure against Suzuki and let Suzuki say things a little more provocative.

And that resulted in Suzuki's statement to ignore the declaration.

And when Togo saw on the following morning in newspaper, big title that Japan is going to ignore, Togo was flabbergasted and extremely angry.

couldn't understand why this happened.

They're sitting in his bunker.

And when I started doing this research, you come to realize that, first of all, the prime minister, Suzuki, is an older – he's like 77 years old.

And he is a former admiral.

He is brought into this big six.

Thank you.

Exactly, right? Yeah, figure out a way to turn this room.

And Suzuki, he's like, look, I'm old.

I don't want to do this.

And I'm interested in the personalities here.

Suzuki and Togo are out of this.

They want to surrender.

They want to acknowledge the Potsdam Declaration.

And so it is through Kido that Hirohito is going to start, begin making his political moves in 1945 to try to assert his own power and bring about it into the war.

The big six, Suzuki is the new prime minister.

Togo is the foreign minister.

They are for finding a way to surrender and use the emperor as the decision maker.