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Near the end of World War II, the Japanese people became increasingly fanatical. Everyoen in the population, even children, were being taught how to defend the Japanese mainland from a Allied invasion, which in truth, was being planned by Allied commanders under the name 'Operation Downfall'-set for 1st November 1945.

As evidenced by their forces sweeping through Manchuria and the Korean Peninsula, the Soviet Union was also planning their own invasion of Japan from the north.

That being said, how would the Japanese military and civilian population have attempted to resist a American/Soviet invasion and how long would this resistance have lasted?
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