Repeating debunked myths does not make them true. First off, LeMay removed the machine guns because the bombing raids were losing so few planes due to Japan's pitifully weak air defenses. How can you not know this? Hoyt:
General LeMay called his wing commanders to meet at his Quonset hut headquarters on Guam. He showed them the results of the [February 26] Tokyo firebomb raid. . . . His XXI Bomber Command was going to switch to night raids.
Moreover, they were going to change their entire tactics. No more high-altitude raids. They would go in low, 5,000 to 6,000 feet, and the crews would be reduced to save weight for more bombs. . . . Japanese anti-aircraft defenses were nothing like the German, LeMay knew from his European Theater experience. He anticipated losses due to flak would be only 5 percent. . . .
Only two aircraft had been lost to flak to date because the Japanese relied on searchlights and radar, while the German flak batteries were controlled electronically. . . .
What about fighters? Somebody asked.
That would not be a problem. The Japanese had only two groups of night fighters in all the home islands, LeMay said. “That’s why I’m sending in the B-29s without machine guns or ammunition.” (Edwin Hoyt, Inferno: The Fire Bombing of Japan, New York: Madison Books, 2000, Kindle Edition, locs. 231-243)
Two, by April 1945, nearly all of Japan's top civilian leaders, including Hirohito, wanted to surrender. This has been so well documented that it is amazing that you would get on a public board and claim that "the Japanese had no intention of surrendering." Good grief, that is inexcusable fiction given what we've known for at least two decades now. The whole reason that Hirohito and Kido engineered Tojo's forced resignation was to get a more moderate prime minister who would help them end the war, and in a few months they got just that person in Admiral Suzuki, who played a crucial role in overcoming the militarists' opposition to surrender. How can anyone who claims to be a serious researcher on this subject not know this stuff?
Three, as for your pathetic exaggerations about Japan's military capability to repel an invasion, they are just laughable. On what planet did Japan have "thousands of suicide boats" and "tens of thousands of kamikaze aircraft" ready to repel an invasion?
Japan's total number of military aircraft of any kind by mid-1945 was about 9,000, and many of those aircraft were not fit to be called "military" in any meaningful sense of the word, not to mention the fact that Japan was so low on fuel that they were training new pilots using movies instead of actual air training. Where in the devil do you get the claim that Japan had "tens of thousands" of kamikaze planes available?
And "thousands of suicide boats"???!!! Not on this planet. And, pray tell, what fuel would those alleged thousands of boats have used? Who would have piloted them? How would they have even gotten near a U.S. Navy ship that had even minimal weaponry? The Japanese navy was virtually non-existent by early 1945, as was Japan's merchant sea force, especially in the waters around Japan. Where do you get this figure of "thousands of suicide boats"? This dubious figure must be heavily counting small fishing boats and other small commercial vessels, which would have been easily and quickly blown out of the water if they had tried to approach even a smaller-sized American destroyer, much less a heavy cruiser, a battleship, or an aircraft carrier.
