“... because he thought the emperor was a god and to die for him was a good thing...”
Their whole population thought that way, Deaf....and fierce warriors that would fight to the death too....think kamikaze pilots.
There were plans for a ground invasion of the Japanese homeland that would have resulted in a HUGE number of American casualties....I, for one, probably wouldn’t even be sitting here typing this now had it gone that way.
As bad and controversial as the nukes were, they saved thousands of American combat soldiers’ lives. Personally, I’m thankful...very thankful.
Most likely, Japanese civilians would have been issued grenades and pistols and told to take an American soldier with them, like the later Vietcong and Palestine trick of using children as assassins.
Given American attitudes at the time, that would have resulted in the extermination of the entire Japanese population.