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well the unconditional surrender wasn't entirely true on japan
the japanese were always vying to keep just ONE term which was to allow the emperor to remain in position - the U.S. in PUBLIC didn't want to agree so they kept pressing "official" unconditional surrender - in fact Japan was trying to surrender on that term but weren't granted it.
In the end however the U.S. still granted it tho not officially - so officially yes Japan did surrender unconditionally in the end but secretly they still gave the single term.
That being said there were many hard-liners in the military who didn't want to surrender - as seen in the coup d'etat by a few soldiers tho tried to destroy the surrender tapes - but in actuality teh generals and war ministers and whatever knew the emperor's words were final.
So honestly though, who knows - the bombing may never have been needed had they been postponed and history would be veyr differnet of course - but looking back at history does no good - its a matter of knowing what to do and what not to do in teh future.
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