Japan might still be able to resist long and fiercely. But across the world's biggest ocean the U.S. was bodily moving its fighting manpower and an unprecedented mass of weapons for the kill. Vast areas of industrial Japan were in ruins from bombing. A more & more hermetic blockade from sea and air was closing in. In Okinawa the U.S. forces were only 325 miles from the home archipelago. From Siberia fell the lengthening shadow of Russia. Cried Premier Kantaro Suzuki: Japan's crisis "is the greatest since the Mongolian invasion."*
Fishponds & Rice Paddies. In this mood Japan prepared feverishly...
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