Japan surrendered to end world war ii after the united states occupied japan it ran out of natural resources the emperor stepped down the united states dropped atomic bombs

Japan surrendered to end World War II after the United States dropped the atomic bombs. On August 15th, of 1945, the Emperor of Japan  - Hirohito - gave a recorded radio address which announced the surrender of Japan to the Allies. This was only a week after the U.S. dropped the bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.