Just this year there’s been a Japanese-produced documentary released titled, ‘Kamikaze: An Untold History’ which tries to make sense of the Japanese sending so many young men to die in what already was clear — even to them — would be a losing effort.
It’s very well done, completely avoids trying to excuse what they did, but the one thing I found almost shocking, something I had never heard before, is that there was a nation-wide movement called, “One Million Kamikaze.” They had sold the public on the idea that they were preparing to launch as many as ONE MILLION SUICIDE ATTACKS. As was, about 3800 young men killed themselves, along with about 7000 allied servicemen.
Which goes to the point that nuking Hiroshima and Nagasaki was actually kinder TO BOTH SIDES of the war than a land invasion of the Japans would have been.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt37731610/
Don’t forget the mass campaign inside Japan for women and children civilians to sharpen up broomsticks to use on our military as spears.