The Japanese government announced that a message had been sent to the Allies accepting the terms of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potsdam_Declaration" id="mw5g" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Potsdam Declaration">Potsdam Declaration</a> provided that it "does not comprise any demand that prejudices the prerogatives of the Emperor as sovereign ruler."<sup about="#mwt55" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-9"}}' id="cite_ref-9" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./August_10#cite_note-9" id="mw5w" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 9;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mw6A">[9]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-9">"On War.com, August 1945" | <a class="external free" href="https://www.onwar.com/wwii/chronology/194508.html" id="mwB-c" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">https://www.onwar.com/wwii/chronology/194508.html</a></span>