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If we blockaded Japan, do you think that the ever-scarcer resources would have been shared by all until they decided to surrender? Not a chance. They would have been consumed by the army, just as Saddam is doing now. And the babies would have starved. The only difference is that back then there weren't so many squishy whiners. They would have condemned us for the starvation or for attacking, just as is done today, because some people just cannot recognize the existence of evil. There is no way to deal with it except to comfront and crush it. How many would have died of malnutrition? I'll bet many more than we vaporized from the air.

A blockade wouldn't have worked. Having lived in country for ten years and as a student of Asian affairs, I can tell you the Japanese would have put up with it for fifty years and might have grown stronger as a result. And, how would a blockade deal with several million Japanese Army troops who controlled the Asian land mass from Burma to Korea ?