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I suppose this is literally true since they still held Manchuria and other parts of China and random Pacific islands here and there that the US had bypassed, but that was really only because the bulk of their troops were trapped in these places with no capacity to bring them back to Japan. They were effectively out of oil and ships at that point. You might say that the Japanese nation was not already collapsed, but they were very obviously finished, with the only question being how long the mopping-up was going to take.