“Ketsu-go,” the operational plan to repel an Allied invasion of the homeland, was circulated the same week the Suzuki government came to power. It involved a climactic, spasmodic effort to pour substantially all of the nation’s remaining military and economic resources into countering an invasion. Ketsu called for a massive troop buildup, to be accomplished through the mobilization of new and reserve army divisions; the deployment of forces to the regions considered most likely as points of invasion; the construction of coastal fortifications behind the expected invasion beaches; and an
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