By raising 129 divisions, mostly through conscription, launching 2500 warships, and sending brave men armed with bayonets and flamethrowers to kill the enemy, one by one, until they surrendered.
Being allied with the Red Army didn't hurt.
Well, there's that too. My point was only that increasingly today we find ourselves with a smaller supply of very expensive weapons that are used in ways to deliberately inflict as few casualties on the enemy as possible. That's not how to win a war. However, it's a great way to empty our depots of these very expensive weapons.
That was a total effort. Even women and children helped the war effort. Next time we may see that again is war against China or a nuke attack, but half of the country would probably help the other side.
Yes, and the presidents that sent those men with bayonets and flamethrowers didn’t call Shintoism or Nazism “peaceful”.