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Repent, resist, admit defeat, throw the blame... Open this book and gain insight into a crazy 24 hours of the end of Japanese militarism. In the 24 hours before Japan announced its surrender, the emperor, prime minister, ministers, military officers... Each made their own choices. The different choices the Japanese made when facing failure still affect Japan's political direction to this day. This book gives a panoramic view of a series of events that occurred from noon on August 14 to noon on August 15 before Japan's defeat and surrender, surrounding the "End War Edict", and clearly tells what happened behind Japan's final fall. In this process, various forces and classes in Japan had different attitudes towards the issue of surrender. In the 24 hours before 12:00 noon on August 15, 1945, all that happened surrounding Japan's Emperor Hirohito's decision to accept the "Potsdam Declaration" and officially issue the "End of War Edict" to unconditionally surrender to the United States, Britain, the Soviet Union, and China: an unacceptable reality and an unimaginable future. , The emotional expressions and behavioral choices of various people in the political and military circles, the controversies and variables in the implementation of the end-of-war procedures, the ambiguity and deliberate avoidance of the "End-of-War Edict", the disobedient special attack of the air force base commander, the desperate mutiny of young officers from the Army Ministry... What happened behind Japan's final fall? As a classic book on the theme of World War II, this book has been adapted into movies twice and has a great influence.