Yet here you are defending the ignorant and FALSE claim by them that Japan tried to surrender.
No, I am not. As far as I can tell, they were just prepping for the end of the war (which would include their surrender, as we would spin it; a peace deal, as they would spin it). "They" (Japan had about 4 governments at this point) made some overtures to Russia regarding the end of the war, for example.
The best I can do on this one is to lean to the idea that we should have waited to drop the second bomb for a few weeks. Still torn on the first one.