Regardless of what you may have read in Gullible's Travels, and I am quite sure you cannot be swayed by the facts, but what follows is the real situation at the time.
From American Caesar, by William Manchester, Copyright 1978.
Page 510 of the paperback edition:
Meanwhile Hirohito’s generals, grimly preparing for the invasion, had not abandoned hope of saving their homeland. Although a few strategic islands had been lost, they told each other, most of their conquests, including the Chinese heartland, were firmly in their hands, and the bulk of their army was undefeated. Even now they could scarcely believe that any foe would have the audacity to attempt landings in Japan itself. Allied troops, they boasted, would face the fiercest resistance in history. Over ten thousand kamikaze planes were readied for “Ketsu-Go”, Operation Decision. Behind the beaches, enormous connecting underground caves had been stocked with caches of food and thousands of tons of ammunition. Manning the nation’s ground defenses were 2,350,000 regular soldiers, 250,000 garrison troops, and 32,000,000 civilian militiamen – a total of 34,600,000, more than the combined armies of the United States, Great Britain, and Nazi Germany. All males aged fifteen to sixty, and all females aged seventeen to forty-five, had been conscripted. Their weapons included ancient bronze cannon, muzzle-loading muskets, bamboo spears, and bows and arrows. Even little children had been trained to strap explosives around their waists, roll under tank treads, and blow themselves up. They were called “Sherman carpets”.
Wow, I give you three expert sources and now I'm gullible?
And what, pray, were the Japanese to build these new forces with? We're talking about a nation with no natural resources of it's own, a merchant marine which was sitting at the bottom of the ocean, financially bankrupt and at the mercy of the other Great Powers intent on keeping it from ever rising in that way again.
While there certainly were Japanese military figures willing to fight to the death in true Samurai fashion, there were an awful lot who didn't see the point in doing so. In fact, Japanese pre-war governments were chock full of former military men who became prime ministers, Chiefs of Staff and party leaders who did everything in their power to prevent war (ANY WAR) by all means possible. You assume that because those men had been ignored prior to the outbreak opf hostilities, they would have been ignored after those hostilities ceased. Hardly the case in a country which had been ruined and suffering to the extent that Japan was.