World War II

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World War II 1939-1945

Causes and Diplomacy

Land Warfare

Western Europe

Eastern Europe

China

Naval Warfare

see World War II, Pacific

Submarines

Air War

see World War II, air war

Economics

Financing

Production

Manpower

War Crimes

Holocaust

Resistance

Results and Aftermath

Japan

Total Japanese military fatalities between 1937 and 1945 were 2.1 million; most came in the last year of the war. Starvation or malnutrition-re­lated illness accounted for roughly 80 percent of Japanese military deaths in the Philippines, and 50 percent of military fatalities in China. The aerial bombing of a total of 65 Japanese cities appears to have taken a minimum of 400,000 and possibly closer to 600,000 civlian lives (over 100,000 in Tokyo alone, over 200,000 in Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined, and 80,000-150,000 civilian deaths in the battle of Okina­wa). Civilian death among settlers who died attempting to re­turn to Japan from Manchuria in the winter of 1945 were probably around 100,000.[1]

Bibliography

  1. John Dower, "Lessons from Iwo Jima," Perspectives (Sept 2007) 45#6 pp 54-56 at [1]