ANNEX (a) Could some modification of "unconditional surrender" he acceptable to the Japanese, and would this reduce the military measures required to achieve the end of the war with Japan? No properly constituted Japanese authority (i.e., the Emperor and Japanese leaders) would be likely to accept terms of surrender which in its Japanese conception could not be interpreted to the Japanese nation as capable of acceptance. The use of the phrase "unconditional surrender" at once makes it unlikely that any such surrender could be acceptable to them since the expression probably implies to the Japanese the overthrow of their "National Structure" by involving:(a) The overthrow of the Emperor and of the position of the Imperial House.