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From everything I read, the Japanese military was digging in really hard. After Iwo Jima the US realized how costly a land invasion of Japan itself would be. (Fun fact: all purple hearts given out since WW2 were made in preparation for the hundreds of thousands of US wounded they were expecting.) They dropped one, then waited and the Japanese didn't surrender, so the US dropped a second one. In fact, there was an attempted Coup to overthrow the Emporer before he could surrender. 
So what historians are you talking about?
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WW2 didn't end until a lot of Japanese people were vaporized. But maybe there was an Austrian in town at the time? >

it also didn't end with Hitler's death, it ended a few days later as the german forces began surrendering >

I'm too lazy to look it up but if I remember correctly the war continued in Asia for weeks/ months? Until the US nuclear-bombed Nagasaki. >

Yes the pacific theater went on until Japan surrender, ww2 in Europe ended a few days after hitlers death >

Actually WW2 ended with the capitulation of Japan in 1945, almost an entire year after Hitler un-alived himself. >

On the radio broadcast to announce the surrender to the Japanese people they stated that “the war didn’t go as planned.” No shit! >

You'd think the huge radioactive mushroom clouds were a dead give-away. >

World War 2 ended with a successful two year government conspiracy to cause two new suns to bloom into existence over dense, urabnised civilian centres, the final blow in a holy war that ushered the surrender of a man worshipped as a god.
Did you literally just forget half of the biggest war in history? >

Bit of a romantic view of it. Historians** largely agree that Japan was already defeated at this point and only looking for a way to surrender while saving face. The dual bombing by the United States was an arrogant show of force and useless loss of life. Eyewitnesses in the Emperor's chamber often report his and his counsel's reactions to news of the bombing as being rather apathetic, in fact. 
Don't glorify war. It's disgusting.
**EDIT :: I misremembered. I didn't hear this from historians. I heard this from United States Military Officers from the time.