Of course. But we can dig deeper into this if you like. There's one thing where Americans are the best in the whole wide world. That's marketing.
By going through their historical sources, one gets an impression that Japan was formidable force before WWII, just because they had decent planes. They even compare Japanese with Germany which is complete nonsense. Yes, Japs trashed China during the war but that's because at that time China was feudal state.
Also thanks to the work of Japanese historians, we now know much more about Japanese plans in the summer of 1945. Japan had no intention of surrendering. It had husbanded over 8,000 aircraft, many of them Kamikazes, hundreds of explosive-packed suicide boats, and over two million well equipped regular soldiers, backed by a huge citizen’s militia. When the Americans landed, the Japanese intended to hit them with everything they had, to impose on them casualties that might break their will. If this did not do it, then the remnants of the army and the militias would fight on as guerrillas, protected by the mountains and by the civilian population.
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