The Hiroshima shadows.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

The March (something) firebombing of Tokyo killed more Japanese than either bomb, and almost as many as both combined, IIRC. Ending the war was the mission. The Japanese military government made the civilians a target by spreading war production out of the factories and into civilian homes. They also deemed that everyone between a certain age, male and female, were to be considered military for the defense of the Home Islands.