planned invasions in November 1945 and March 1946 would take at least a year
Japan was virtually impossible to invade by land because it was a heavily defended island country. The only way to invade it would be a massive sea, air, and land attack. The United States predicted that they would loose 2 million men in an invasion of Japan. They decided bombing it into submission would be a better idea.
during WW2, there was no trade between Japan and the US
it was either that or invade japan and lets just say a lot of soldiers would die
During World War II, Germany gave up its plans to invade Great Britain because he could not defeat the British air force.
Japan is a long way away. Invading it would be very difficult due to the long distances that everything would have to be shipped.
If the US were to invade the Japanese home islands, it was estimated about 1.5 million American military deaths, 2 million Japanese military deaths, and 10 million Japanese civilian deaths would occur.
Asia may look very innocent but it is not. Korea planned this attack for many years and thank the lord it went rite. If the plan did not go rite then Asia would still be Americas ruler today!
To force the Japanese Government to surrender unconditionally saving thousands of American servicemen's lives, and possibly as many as a million Japanese lives - most of them women, children and old men - who would have died if the Allies had been forced to invade Japan.
Darwin Australia - that would be Japan during the second world war.
To get more people to fight on there side so that they can win. Japan is psycologically impared and they dont have squat for space in there country. Probably the same reason James Cook and the English did, they wanted land...
there were several islands sutch as mid-way, in the pacific that america owns that japan either invaded or attempted to. japan never attempted to invade americas mainland because they feared americas number of gun owners would put up a fight.
To gain territory which would later bring raw materials for Japan (oil, lumber, copper, iron ore, etc.).