Everything Shel B says is right, but it does not take into account the psychology of the Japanese leaders, who were in some part preparing themselves for a heroic fight to the death.
Any logical person would make decisions as Shel B states, but the Japanese leadership were not acting normally, I could put out many instances of this but what that comes foremost to my mind is that they refused to protect their own merchant ships because these were less important than the military even though it meant they ran out of supplies, or that there were more aeroplanes defending iwo jima than Britain had in the battle of Britain, but they chose to throw them away in suicide attacks.
Any logical person would make decisions as Shel B states, but the Japanese leadership were not acting normally, I could put out many instances of this but what that comes foremost to my mind is that they refused to protect their own merchant ships because these were less important than the military even though it meant they ran out of supplies, or that there were more aeroplanes defending iwo jima than Britain had in the battle of Britain, but they chose to throw them away in suicide attacks.
