&gt; What Japan still had was a warrior &#x2F; religious culture that would have no problem fighting to the end<p>I really don&#x27;t buy that. It smacks of dehumanization and propaganda. I can&#x27;t answer whether waging conventional war on Japan to the end would have been too costly a decision, but let&#x27;s not excuse ourselves and say it&#x27;s because the extreme nature of their cultural values makes it necessary.