Farmerseed SG I am never interested in what the history text wrote during my secondary school days and i certainly did bad for my sec 2 history. But i did good on the tests and sections on WW2. After my school days i frequent libraries and the internet for any more read on WW2 and i happen to learn about the battle of IWO JIMA here. Its good to read out of the school texts sometimes. The japanese will still fight to the death everyone last men. More likely the emperor and his lackeys are the ones who fear their own houses might be bombed so the ones with the power to decide and convince the ruler eventually submit to defeat.
Kenashi SG the govt did the right thing to surrender, after the world war in europe ended, i don't think USA going to give much mercy on the jap who bombed their pearl harbour. furthermore, USA get to test their new toy, the atomic bombs.
Farmerseed SG I think US threat prisoners better than the other Allies. I am not trying to stereotype them as the real good guys but you can take Nazis Germany for example. After the war the country was splitted into 2: East and West. Ask the people over at Russia's mercy and compare them to West germany. Perhaps doing the very basic mathematics an invasion of the main Island of Japan may result in more tragedies and bloodshed with even more casualties of soldiers and civilians on both sides. Like i said the high ranking bas tards would probably insist their soldiers to fight to the last man if it wasn't for the fear than the next bomb would be dropped over Tokyo and their own offices.
