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Yes, if you consider being forced to surrender unconditionally a win.
The Japanese Instrument of Surrender was the written agreement that enabled the Surrender of Japan, ending World War II.
The american public was quite weary of war, so the US needed a quick win.
In the surrender of Italy, germany, and japan
Without answering the unasked question of why Japan attacked the US in the first place, cementing its involvement in the war, the simple response would be "Japan wanted to win the war in order to be victorious". Why would anybody wish to lose? Once Japan was at war with the Allied forces, it was a matter of honour and duty to vanquish the enemy, or to die in the effort- surrender was not permissable.
The Americans had sent a la team to ask Japan to surrender but they strongly refused to do so. Then this was what had to be done to win the war.
Potsdam Conference
Japan Did surrender to the USA, and President Harry Truman, after two atomic bombs were dropped on Japan, (and after Russia declared war on Japan). Japan did not want to surrender, because their samurai code said it was better to die instead of to surrender. It was after they were bombed with nuclear weapons (and after Russia attacked the Japanese forces in Manchuria), that Japan finally decided to surrender.
There would have been NO surrender.
Before.
Potsdam
they wanted to