Arigatou Gozaimasu, @eatshitndie-sama!
But in my humble opinion, Japan's best "weapon" back then was the spirit:
wikipedia.org/wiki/Bushido
of their:
wikipedia.org/wiki/Samurai
and their:
wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamikaze
wikipedia.org/wiki/Banzai_charge
youtube.com/watch?v=4crA5cntE8M
youtube.com/watch?v=OL9grT558_M
And here's one of their most famous kamikaze pilots:
ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/関 行男
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seki Yukio
who "led a unit of five bomb-armed Mitsubishi Zero fighters, crash-diving his plane deliberately into the:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_St._Lo's
flight deck, being the first kamikazes to sink an enemy ship. .... Of the 889 men aboard, 113 were killed or missing and approximately 30 others died of their wounds."
About half a year later, the:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Bunker_Hill_(CV-17)#1945
"lost a total of 390 sailors and airmen killed, including 43 missing (never found), and 264 wounded" after it was attacked by:
ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/小川清
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogawa Kiyoshi
and:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasunori_Seizo
youtube.com/watch?v=n-PyrgNSGHA
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