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The figures for Japanese civilian casualties vary widely. The range of estimates includes 350,000, 575,000, and 1.48 million -- a very wide range. Excluding the deaths by atomic bombs (about 130,000) the remaining number is large but is not reliable.

One single bombing raid on Tokyo in March 1945 was estimated to have killed about 100,000 people.

Wikipedia provides this quote: Prime Minister Baron Kantarō Suzuki reported to U.S. military authorities that it "seemed to me unavoidable that in the long run Japan would be almost destroyed by air attack so that merely on the basis of the B-29s alone I was convinced that Japan should sue for peace."

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