Just going to say, when people think WWII, Its the Allies (United States, Briton, Russia) Versus the Axis (Germany, Japan, and Italy)
The Japanese are just as iconic and worthy of a fraction as the constantly remade Germans. The Japanese lasted a year longer than the Germans and had to be subdued by a atomic bomb. They were just as deadly as the Germans.
In both instances, you are talking about countries infused by a totalitarian commitment to a radical ideology: it was a commitment to which the average Allied volunteer/conscript had little notion. i.e. the idea that your (loss of) life would hold precedence over your way of of life.
I could give you examples,if you need, of SS troops in Normandy, who refused blood transfusions from Allied medical teams, bcs they wanted to die for the Fuehrer. (And their influence on Wehrmacht wounded near them)
It is in the light of this kind of fanaticism, that Allied volunteer armies performed as well as they did. To clarify: in Western Europe, German soldiers (Wehrmacht) outside the SS, were mostly not fanatics; but average Japanese soldiers, whereever they were,, inculcated by the doctrine of Bushido and their general close social bonds: they were in the circumstances, generally fanatic.
And I don't think the Japanese surrendered bcs of the A Bomb - but that is another thread