The **** the Japanese would have been looking at in another six or seven weeks would have been considerably worse than more atomic bombs. That would have included 100 US carriers with no further invasion protection duties, i.e. nearly immune to kamikaze attacks, Midway carriers with armored flight decks and compliments of tigercats and bearcats on board, LeMay resupplied with incindiaries which he’d run out of in July of 45 and operating from Okinawa 350 miles away instead of the Marianas 1400 miles away, i.e. as if the number of B29s had been tripled, and about 20,000,000 people who used to live in cities walking around in the forests, and their entire merchant marine on the bottom of the ocean.
What did you miss about Japanese "mind-set?"
Similarly, ever heard of Masada?
“The **** the Japanese would have been looking at in another six or seven weeks would have been considerably worse than more atomic bombs”
Invasion of the mainland would have been exponentially worse for the japanese, and of course would have killed tens of thousands of americans as well in the process (if not more), if the experiences in the islands is any guide.