If Japan had not surrendered after the double whammy of the Hiroshima/Nagasaki A-bomb attacks and the entry of the Soviet Union into the Pacific War, it is likely that:

The 20th Air Force would have resumed its massive conventional bombing campaign against Japan’s cities (including Kyoto) until several atomic bombs became available in 1945 and 1946. (I believe a third A-bomb could have been dropped sometime after August 15, 1945 had the Japanese not agreed to surrender on that day.)

The invasion of Kyushu, codenamed Olympic, would have been carried out on or around November 1, 1945. According to Alfred Coppel’s The Burning Mountain: A Novel of the Invasion of Japan, which was based on the actual American and Japanese war plans for the invasion, the Allied objective was to capture only enough of Kyushu to establish a series of naval and air bases there. These bases would then be used as part of the infrastructure for Operation Coronet, the invasion of Honshu.

Emperor Hirohito and his Cabinet would probably have been killed or held incommunicado by radical militarists who refused to surrender to the Allies. (This is the one element that is necessary for this “no surrender even after the Soviet invasion of Manchuria and the A-bomb attacks” scenario to be even remotely possible.)

For the Americans, it would have been the bloodiest campaign of World War II if the Olympic/Coronet landings had taken place. Based on the casualty figures from the battles on Peleliu, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa, the most-oft quoted estimate of total U.S. casualties (dead, wounded, captured, or missing) cites a figure of over a million. In 1945, the U.S. government ordered 500,000 Purple Hearts in anticipation of heavy losses. To this day (2016), the U.S. is still awarding Purple Hearts from this batch of medals.

Japan would have been forced to surrender eventually. Even taking into consideration the nihilistic world-view of the die-hard hawks in the Imperial Japanese Army and Navy, the Allied onslaught on the home islands would have been relentless. Nearly all of the country’s industrial capacity would have ceased to exist, and the casualties (mostly civilian) on the Japanese side alone would have reached the 30 million mark by the time the war ended.

what choice did she have after two of her major cities (Nagasaki and Hiroshima) has been blown with atomic bombs, moreover, the rest of her allies (Germany and Italy) already gave up on the war.

Japan was dining with the great five (US, RUSSIA, BRITAIN, FRANCE, BELGIUM) dividing the loot of the conquered lands amongst themselves. Nagasaki and Hiroshima was to show her that the West/Allies were at the top of the pyramid. Nothing more.

Yacubes:
what choice did she have after two of her major cities (Nagasaki and Hiroshima) has been blown with atomic bombs, moreover, the rest of her allies (Germany and Italy) already gave up on the war.

MAJOR WHAT?

cannonnier:


MAJOR WHAT?

CITIES.

Yacubes:

CITIES.

They are not even close anything major amongst Japanese cities.
they are not even in first 10

cannonnier:


They are not even close anything major amongst Japanese cities.

they are not even in first 10

how come almost 200000 casualties were recorded in both cities as a result of the Nukes in 1945?

cannonnier:


They are not even close anything major amongst Japanese cities.

they are not even in first 10

how come almost 200000 casualties were recorded in both cities as a result of the Nukes in 1945?

No country on earth had harnessed the power of atomic bomb as at then only the United State of America through the manhattan project
The japanese knew they where no match for the US after those two bombs where dropped. If japan didn't back down then they wouldn't exist today.

Yacubes:



how come almost 200000 casualties were recorded in both cities as a result of the Nukes in 1945?

how much is 200k compared to about 40million citizen.

you have Osaka, Tokyo, Nagoya, Yokohama, Kyoto etc, etc.

Hiroshima and Nagasaki are just tiny islands in the Japanese peninsula, though Hiroshima is more than twice bigger in land mass It population stand at around 1.5million and Nagasaki is at around 450 thousand.
compared to Tokyo and Yokohama's 12.5million population, with Tokyo having 2k km sq and Yokohama only about 400 km sq in land mass.

If you're really interested in Japan you can do some research.
they are the best people I have ever read about.

cannonnier:


how much is 200k compared to about 40million citizen.

you have Osaka, Tokyo, Nagoya, Yokohama, Kyoto etc, etc.

Hiroshima and Nagasaki are just tiny islands in the Japanese peninsula, though Hiroshima is more than twice bigger in land mass It population stand at around 1.5million and Nagasaki is at around 450 thousand.
compared to Tokyo and Yokohama's 12.5million population, with Tokyo having 2k km sq and Yokohama only about 400 km sq in land mass.

If you're really interested in Japan you can do some research.
they are the best people I have ever read about.

Thank you for the enlightment sir.