IF the Atomic bomb had NOT been dropped, the Japanese people would of been virtually exterminated by bombing, pestilence and disease.
The Japanese islands could not support their population. With the bombing and the sub warfare the transportation net was gone. Japanese civilians would of died in the 10s of millions suffered from famine and disease.
Also, if we had gone for a siege instead of dropping the bomb or invaded not only would the Japanese civilian death toll been hugely higher, given the sorts of collateral civilian damage caused by the military technology of the time but the Stalin would invariably used the opportunity to invade the northern part of Japan. Instead of Korea, Japan would of been partitioned with all the horrors that has brought for Korea for 63 years and counting. Both the author, and the subject, are idiots studying to be morons....and failing. The ONLY humane thing to do in 1945 is to drop the atomic bombs and end the war quickly. Any other action by the allies would of been barbaric.
Imagine how many lives in Europe would have been saved if we had the A-bomb a year earlier?
More than 10,000,000 Japanese were shipped to South America.
Disease was rampant.
The place was far from being a worldly manifestation of the Western Paradise for many years.