One proposed explanation of Japan's surrender focuses on the loss of access to Manchurian resources after Soviet entry. The reply challenges that economic mechanism because submarine forces had already obstructed the maritime approaches used to bring supplies to Japan. The point concerns how much additional resource loss Soviet entry would cause. It does not settle the wider debate over the political and military reasons for surrender.
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Manchurian resources and the submarine blockade of Japan
An existing submarine blockade complicates an explanation of surrender based solely on losing Manchurian supplies.