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Because of starvation deaths; most Japanese fatalities among the troops in the Pacific War weren't KIAs but the result of island garrisons cut off and thus running out of food.

The Japanese ratio at Okinawa and Iwo Jima was 1:1 or better, by late in the war the Japanese had adjusted their tactics to the extent they were inflicting casualties at an equal rate even on the Americans. If you exclude starvation deaths, which were the majority of the IJA's losses in WWII...

I'm on record as stating a continuing World War II is more likely to see the Soviet zone including all of Korea than any mainland Japanese territory, including the Kurils. The one island the Soviets landed on saw them at a 1:1 parity with the Japanese but the latter was inflicting a casualty...

They basically planned to make a landing after the expected Japanese surrender; i.e. no resistance expected because the war was over. This has since been morphed by Soviet boosters into a D-Day for the Red Army with its grand total of six LCI...out of an original nine because they lost like...

I haven't read it all the way through, the author annoyed me with the Soviet landings bit in Hokkaido simply because such is insanely ASB. The Soviets didn't have the NGF, the landing craft or the airpower to make anything beyond an administrative landing, which was actually what they were...