The Japanese people were being urged by their god-emperor to fight to the death in an invasion, using bamboo sticks if necessary, so we had estimated up to ten million Japanese casualties just in combat, not counting starvation and disease. The count includes men, women and children.
Frankly, the thought horrifies me. No humane, rational person could possibly want to commit that slaughter unless there were no other choice.
I am PROUD that we were able to end the war quickly, avoiding not only those deaths, but of a million or more of our troops, and hundreds of thousands more people in China and elsewhere.
I’ve seen photos of the training material pupblished to teach Japanese civilians how to attack Americans by any and all means. Very similar to current Islamist indoctrination material. The common Leftist teaching in today’s schools is that America forced Japan to attack China, and then used that as an excuse to commit attrocities against the Japanese. [Pardon me while I puke.]