The US dropped two nukes on Japanese cities

[Jedi Guy]

90. Their grim, fanatical tenacity to turn the tide of the war gave birth to the kamikaze.

Suicide attacks were nothing new in warfare, of course, but when a professional military turns to them as a preferred tactic, it sure says a lot about just how far they're willing to go to win. Apply that same ferocious tenacity to the defense of the home islands by that same professional military and a civilian militia numbering in the millions, all believing it's their duty to die in the service of the Emperor, and it doesn't paint a pretty picture at all for anyone involved.

Hiroshima was bombed on August 6 and Nagasaki was bombed on August 9, so they had a couple days to consider surrender and decided against it. Japanese scientists advised the military leadership that the Allies couldn't have many more atomic bombs and the hardliners were ride or die. They only reconsidered after Nagasaki was attacked, and even then the hardliners still wanted to pursue the war.

People who think that they would've surrendered quickly if we'd just waited them out or done this or that really, truly do not understand who the Japanese were as a people in the first half of the 20th century.