The fact you referenced wooden rocket planes (By Okinawa they were not using Zeros. They were using little wooden ‘rocket planes’.) during the Kamikaze assault, the references to Leyte OOB (They only had 40 zeros that were flight worthy at Leyte Gulf.). It appears that you thought the only plane the Japs operated was the Zero.
It may surprise you but the Japanese didn’t regard themselves as the source of divine governance during the Shogunate.
No surprise at all, the governance by the 'divine' was a result of the Mejii Restoration. However the dictatorship of the Shogunate was similar to that of Imperial Japan, both under one man, the Shogun or the Emperor.
Again, I’m not opposed to the use of the atomic bomb. I’m opposed to the ahistorical nonsense that the bomb was ok because there were no other viable options. Eisenhower (and he should know!) argues otherwise.
That all depends upon the strategic objectives, lessen Allied casualties, get Japan to the surrender table quickly unconditional surrender, saving the POWs. A blockade achieves 50% of those goals. The invasion 75%. The fact that an invasion was planned and only discarded after the bombs shows that a blockade was the least favorable of the COAs available. A blockade was considered and rejected, Ike notwithstanding.
“It appears that you thought the only plane the Japs operated was the Zero.”
Does it ever occur to you that this is an unwarranted assumption?
“However the dictatorship of the Shogunate was similar to that of Imperial Japan”
In what way? Local control didn’t go away just because of the Shogunate. Meiji actually increased the centralization of the state, not decreasing it. Feudal Japan was far more decentralized.
“shows that a blockade was the least favorable of the COAs available”
Given that they undertook a blockade and did not undertake an invasion demonstrates that Blockade was preferable to invasion.