During the 14 years from 1931 to 1945, the Chinese people fought an extremely arduous War of Resistance against Japan, paying an extremely heavy price, with more than 35 million Chinese people (including more than 3.8 million troops), containing more than two-thirds of the Japanese army's army strength. So how many people did the Japanese invaders do in this war?
After the Meiji Restoration, Japan quickly embarked on the road of industrialization, and had a complete military industrial system, which undoubtedly had a strong advantage over other Asian countries at that time. In addition, in the early stage of the Anti-Japanese War, it faced a scattered China, and this advantage was also reflected in the war losses.
The medical data of the Japanese Ministry of Health and Welfare believe that a total of 455,700 Japanese soldiers died during the entire Anti-Japanese War, which is obviously on the low side, and Japan excludes a large number of deaths and missing people due to injuries in the statistical process, and even deliberately classifies the cause of death as other factors.
Taking the famous Battle of Wuhan in the middle of the Anti-Japanese War as an example, the cumulative number of participants in this battle reached more than 110 thousand, and the Japanese puppet army reached more than 40 thousand. Among them, the Japanese troops participating in the war were about 150,000 in the 11th Army (including reinforcements), about 120,000 in the Second Army, and more than 300,000 in the Army Aviation Corps and the Third Fleet of the Navy. Although the Japanese army won a crushing victory, the war turned into a long-term stalemate, and the Japanese army's battle report can be regarded as a typical example.
Japanese Second Army Report: The Japanese army killed about 2,300 people and wounded about 7,300 people, a total of 9,600 people; The 11th Army Report: The Japanese army killed 4,506 people and wounded 17,380 people, a total of 21,886 people, and fought with millions of ** for more than four months, and the Japanese army only ** 30,000? This was unconvincing in any case, and the Japanese certainly knew it, so the "epidemic and hot weather" of the Japanese army in this war caused more than 100,000 non-combat attrition ......
There are many different voices in Japan in the official Japanese version, among which the more authoritative statement is that the famous Japanese military writer Ito Masanori, who experienced World War II, proposed that the Japanese army killed 789,370 people in China.
There are also many theories about China's statistics on Japan** due to objective reasons, and this article is mainly based on the mainstream view.
Zhang Tinggui published an article entitled "The Role of Our Army as the Main Force in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression from the Perspective of Certain Materials" in the fourth issue of Military History in 1985, pointing out that during the eight years of Japan's invasion of China (excluding Northeast China), more than 1.33 million officers and soldiers were killed and wounded.
In 1994, the People's Liberation Army Publishing House published the "History of China's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression" compiled by the Military History Research Department of the Academy of Military Sciences, which believes that China's War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression began in 1931 with the September 18 Incident and was signed by Japan in September 1945, during which the squadron annihilated more than 1.5 million Japanese troops.