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Originally Posted by AndyJWest
Who 'voted not to surrender'?
It is entirely untrue that 'they fought to every last soldier over and over again' - In the Okinawa campaign, large numbers of Japanese troops surrendered for example.
I've seen no evidence the Japanese population was any more 'brainwashed' than say the Germans (or even, arguably, than Allied populations). The term amounts to little more than cold war propaganda anyway - it certainly isn't recognised by most psychologists.
In any case, regardless of the will to fight on, the Japanese no longer had the means, at least on the Japanese mainland
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The Allies suffered about 50K casualties on Okinawa. Japanese soldiers 100K. Civilians 100K.
Now extrapolate that to an invasion of the mainland.
Japan didn't have the means to fight on Okinawa either, but they did, sometimes with sticks. Of course, in that number of civilian casualties is the large number of suicides.
The last A-bomb fell on the 9th, they surrendered on the 15th....but they were ready to surrender
. The only thing that saved them was an Emperor who finally made a decision despite a cabinet that was still split after the second bomb.
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