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Of the 1,130,000 Imperial Japanese Army soldiers who died during World War II, 39 percent died in China. [216] Then in War Without Mercy, John W. Dower claims that a total of 396,000 Japanese soldiers died in China during the Second Sino-Japanese War. Of this number, the Imperial Japanese Army lost 388,605 soldiers and the Imperial Japanese ...
China portal; Events preceding World War II in Asia. Jinan incident (May 1928) Huanggutun incident (Japanese assassination of the Chinese head of state Generalissimo Zhang Zuolin on 4 June 1928) Second Sino-Japanese War. Japanese invasion of Manchuria. Mukden Incident (18 September 1931) January 28 Incident (Shanghai, 1932) Defense of the Great ...
The Japanese North China Area Army estimated the strength of communist regulars to be about 88,000 in December 1939. Two years later, they revised the estimate to 140,000. On the eve of the battle, the Communist forces grew to 200,000 to 400,000 men strong, in 105 regiments.
[186] [134] Despite the efforts of hospital staff to evacuate as many wounded soldiers as possible during the last days of the battle, many, perhaps the majority of wounded Chinese soldiers were left behind in Nanjing at the mercy of the Japanese. Most, if not all of them, would be executed.
Frank Dorn, an American military officer stationed in China between 1934 and 1939, recorded that some 16,000 Japanese soldiers were killed in action on the Taierzhuang battlefield. [37] American historian Stephen MacKinnon estimates between 15,000 and 20,000 Japanese troops died in the fighting. [ 39 ]
The Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) had approximately 4,100,000 regulars. More Japanese troops were quartered in China than deployed elsewhere in the Pacific Theater during the war. Japanese divisions ranged from 20,000 men in its divisions numbered less than 100, to 10,000 men in divisions numbered greater than 100.
Around 1,700 Japanese troops died, out of a total 10,000 who fell ill when Japanese biological weapons infected their own forces. [ 119 ] [ 120 ] [ 121 ] On 2 November 1943, Isamu Yokoyama , commander of the Japanese 11th Army, deployed around 100,000 troops to attack Changde. [ 122 ]
Foreign military observers estimated Chinese losses at much lower at some 20,000 killed and wounded, whilst also claiming Japanese casualties of around 30,000. [17] Military historian Michael Clodfelter estimates a total of around 50,000 Japanese casualties sustained in the fighting. [19]