| Whether or not the Japanese peasants were as fanatical as the military-hardliners would have become irrelevant very quickly. The other characteristic of the peasantry of Japan was the propensity to take what the Emperor and the ruling class told them to do as Gospel-truth and right (so to speak.) Japan's poor were not accustommed to thinking for themselves in the larger political scheme of things. It wouldn't have taken all that much for the Japanese military to whip them up into a terrified frenzy against the "American demons." Even after Japan surrendered, her people still had a lot of racist based hatred of Americans throughout their culture.
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