Not mentioned is the estimate that at least 1,000,000 US troops would be killed in the invasion of Japan as the entire populous of Japan would have fought to the death.
Not mentioned is the discovery after the war of secret Japanese jets, rockets and missiles stored in preparation for the believed invasion.
With this latter addition, the cost in US troops, aircraft and ships would have steeply risen, and perhaps have ended in defeat for the US.
The 140,000 dead were scarified to save the lives of millions on both sides.
scarified=sacrificed
secret Japanese jets, rockets and missiles stored in preparation for the believed invasion.
That’s a bit of an overstatement. Japan’s first jet aircraft was developed late in World War II and the first prototype had only flown once before the end of the war.
I believe the original sources were estimating 1 million allied “casualties” which is killed and wounded. Still bad, but not quite the same.
And how many people in the lands that Japan had conquered were dying each month in slave labor camps?
Yes, it missed the fact that the Japanese population regarded the US as “violently sieging their homeland”. When the US dropped propaganda notices, the knee jerk response from the population was to turn those notices in to authorities.
As far as they were concerned THEY were in the right, and there was no damn way they would fold under duress, or respond to a the stick and carrot.