“Thinking” is not the same as “doing”
They never did, and would have not accepted unconditional surrender until the joint military invasion of Japan.
https://www.osti.gov/opennet/manhattan-project-history/Events/1945/surrender.htm
I did read this by the way, you clearly didn’t fully read it.
Japan if not accepting unconditional surrender could’ve kept many East Asian conquests.
Coming from a person whose family was gassed in zhejiang by unit 731, I think many people would definitely not agree to have their land be kept due to negotiated surrender.
Paragraph two of the “Japan surrenders” chapter
“From the replies these diplomats received from Tokyo, the United States learned that anything Japan might agree to would not be a surrender so much as a "negotiated peace" involving numerous conditions.”
Please read your own sources before commenting like this.