Honestly I am basing my opinion more books written men on the ground not just general history books alone(though you can find many with differing views on this) a great book is With the Old Breed by Eugene Sledge a US Marine who fought with the Marines this is the view of a man in combat nothing more nothing less.Also do not forget that even Eisenhower was concerned about the war going on much longer and having to invade Japan he and others where concerned about war weary troops would refuse to fight that someone as wise as Eisenhower had this concern should not be taken lightly.At Okinawa 14,000 troops listed as "combat stress reactions" the highest rate for this in the entire war.
Also if you look at total casualties we lost 9804 which is pretty close to the Japanese estimated losses.(wounded men in most cases are no longer combatants)
add to Okinawa 38916 wounded and you have lost some for good others for less time 131571 American fighters.By listing only deaths you are ignoring much of the picture because you
ignore other losses that have an effect on a military force.Now clearly this trend would have been the same(or higher) upon invading main Japanese islands and likely would have been worse and god only knows how many indoctrinated Japanese would have been killed or killed them selves.Some US units on Iwo,Peielu,and Okinawa suffered 60% casualties that is a very high loss rate for an enemy that supposedly lacks the means and most cases was out numbered by the US and they had the intent to die so of course more of the Japanese died but that did much damage on the way down.Also they never count the troops that died of their wounds months or a few years later.I am not sure where your idea that they where inflicting less total casualties against us when in fact in each battle they where inflicting more is coming from.
Hitler chose to commit to the Battle of the Bulge because he felt that a major blow when they appeared beaten would have a negative effect on public opinion about the war in the Allied nations allowing him to sue for peace and this may have been possible we will never know because he failed to reach Antwerp.
The fact remains that there was still a large number of Japanese troops able to fight and taking into consideration the level of indoctrination they where still a very dangerous enemy any force willing to fight at the fanatical level is very dangerous.The loss rates suffered at Iwo Jima and Okinawa where not received well by public opinion one should not under estimate the effect of public opinion during war in a democratic nation like the US.
This is my opinion based years of studying the subject of the Pacific War and I wont change this view if your is different there is not much point on us tit for tatting each other seeing as our views are not the same.
