>>64089426
>There were still tens of millions Japs ready, willing, and able to banzai charge GIs with fucking bamboo spears in the event America invaded and pillaged the home islands
This is a Zigger-tier talking point that only proves how out of touch with reality the ruling military junta of Japan actually was. The idea that 5' nothing high school girls and grannies would charge American tanks and GIs with sticks and fight to the death is completely absurd and should be dismissed as something only a completely retarded milfag would deem plausible. Remember that these are the same retards who thought that sending their best pilots to commit sudoku was a winning strategy. And for the record, the German leaders had the same desperate idea when they were on the brink of defeat as well. All it did was give Eisenhower an excuse to imprison thousands of German civilians in concentration camps:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werwolf
>>64089566
Their reasoning was that they didn't want to surrender everything and have the war be a complete waste of blood and treasure. Remember that they were heavily into the whole ancestor worship thing, and probably thought the war dead would curse them if they gave up all their gains. Japan was allowed to keep Okinawa anyway since it was long considered strategically important by the Americans.
>>64089568
The official bombing strategy was to target marshalling yards to cripple German logistics. These were shunting yards for freight locomotives that were often found near civilian populated areas, so it was a euphemistic method for terrorizing and killing civilians while still being legally sound under the rules of war on paper.