Many Japanese Understand The Bomb Was A Mixed Blessing

[The Sage of Main Street]

The battle of Okinawa...
Battle of Okinawa - Wikipedia

Multiply These Data by 100 and You Got What an Invasion of Japan Would Have Cost


BATTLE OF OKINAWA

American troops: 250,000
American fatalities: 21,000

Japanese troops: 96,000
Japanese fatalities: 89,000

Okinawan "civilians": 300,000
Fatalities: 150,000

 

[rightwinger]

The battle of Okinawa...
Battle of Okinawa - Wikipedia

Multiply These Data by 100 and You Got What an Invasion of Japan Would Have Cost


BATTLE OF OKINAWA

American troops: 250,000
American fatalities: 21,000

Japanese troops: 96,000
Japanese fatalities: 89,000

Okinawan "civilians": 300,000
Fatalities: 150,000

Once we had a bomb, there was no longer a need for an invasion

 

[Unkotare]

Same old excuses and speculation...

 

[mikegriffith1]

Actually, the bomb did not end the war sooner, and the Russians entered the war before the second bomb was dropped. Internal Japanese records make it clear that the Russian invasion, not the nukes, was the key factor that led to Japan's surrender.

The Japanese moderates needed no convincing; they already wanted to accept the Potsdam Declaration, on the sole condition that the emperor not be deposed. The Japanese hardliners were the problem. The hardliners would not even agree to convene the Supreme War Council after they learned of Hiroshima, but they immediately agreed to convene the council when they learned that the Soviets had invaded Manchuria.