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Originally Posted by dcarson
If they bottle up the Home Islands one thing will be quite a few starving Japanese. After the war with the US shipping in food there were people dying of starvation for a summer. Bottle them up longer so that the fishing fleet and coastal shipping gets even more destroyed and no food coming in from outside it will be worse. If Japan follows the policy it did in this reality of putting feeding troops ahead of civilians lots of starving.
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Given the temper of the times, the Americans would probably consider this a feature and not a bug. The question is whether the Japanese can convince themselves to offer terms that Truman can sell as unconditional surrender. After all the Japanese have more leverage here than in OTL. Unfortunately, the die-hards would probably choose to die hard.