| The Japanese may have been beaten but were they ready to surrender, the only idea of surrender was on their terms. The Allies had always insisted that there should be an unconditional surrender of the Axis forces as they did not want a replay of WW1, where the Germans surrendered and then claimed they had never been beaten and this helped to set of WW2. If the Allies had sent a landing force ashore I strongly believe that it would had met by force and the people would have died fighting, if you have any doubts about this just look at the way they killed them selfs by throwing them selfs of cliffs rather than fall into American hands once the Americans had started to take control of the Islands around Japan. The bomb brought the war to a quick end, and even though the casualties were quite high in those cities but they were nothing compared to the American fire raids on Tokyo. It is so easy for those who were not around at the time to be influenced by books and teachers who have there own point of view and also were not around when all this happened.
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