1.   As Tibbets and his men make practice bombing runs over Japan, a peace faction develops in the highest reaches of the Imperial government.

2.   A complicating factor was the split within the military, where some key generals and admirals rejected surrender while others joined the peace faction.

3.   A. Some mutinies might have happened, but the emperor and the peace faction would have been dominant.

4.   But there were many people in the peace faction, like Foreign Minister Togo and the emperor himself.

5.   Earlier this month, Jibril Rajoub, the man under Yasser Arafat in charge of security in the West Bank, said the Palestine peace faction had fallen apart.