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• Invasion of Japan [r]: The U.S. strategic approach to the physical invasion and occupation of Japan, of which Operation Downfall, and its two main phases, Operation Olympic against Kyushu and Operation CORONET against the Kanto Plain; topic also includes alternatives to Downfall and deception operations, and the Japanese Operation KETSU-GO defensive plan ^[e]
  • Operation DOWNFALL [r]: A series of World War II contingency plans for the land invasion of Japan ^[e]
    • Operation OLYMPIC [r]: Contingency plan for the first part of a U.S. invasion of Japan in the Second World War, with landings in the southern island of Kyushu, probably in November 1945; Japan expected it and planned its major resistance there ^[e]
• Nuclear weapon [r]: Add brief definition or description
  • Nuclear attacks against Japan [r]: Preparation of the weapons and tactics used to attack Hiroshima and Nagasaki, as well as the decision to use nuclear weapons at all, and future plans had not Japan surrendered ^[e]
  • Tactical nuclear weapon [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Amphibious warfare [r]: Add brief definition or description

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• Operation KETSU-GO [r]: Counterpart to the American Operation Downfall, Japan's overall plan for defense against invasion of Home Islands. ^[e]
• Operation CORONET [r]: Second phase of the Operation Downfall invasion of Japan, to be launched against the Kanto Plain in 1946 ^[e]
• Kyushu [r]: (九州 Kyuushuu) third-largest and westernmost of the main islands of Japan, divided into seven regions and including the cities of Fukuoka, Nagasaki, Kumamoto and Kagoshima; population about 13,000,000. ^[e]