what was the death count for the Japanese during the pacific war?

Question

im doing a book report... but it was not in the book. My teacher wants me to go above and beyond so im finding facts like this... Any accurate figure will Help... Thank You

Answer 1

Try http://web.jjay.cuny.edu/~jobrien/reference/ob62.html for lots of detail

For Japan you can get total killed/missing of 1.75 million of which 350,000 were civilians

Answer 2

you're going to have to do some more research to get an actual number....but as background, it was about 90% of Japanese troops engaged with American British and Australian forces, because the Japanese DIDN'T SURRENDER....they wouldn't be taken alive; wounded soldiers would wait for Americans to try take them prisoner or medics to try and treat them, then pull out a grenade.......William Manchester, our most distinguished historian, and a Marine in WW2 wrote, that "after 1943, when it was clear they weren't surrendering, we no longer bothered to even try and after that prisoners were taken only nder the most freakish of circumstances"......this mentality even extended to civilians; when we retook Saipan, thousands of Japanese civilians threw themselves off cliffs under the horrified gaze of US troops........

It was different story once we got B-29 bombers in range of Japanese cities....we bomb cities flat with a mixture of high explosive and fire bombs and killed hundreds of thousands............more Japanese died in the firebombing raid on Tokyo ( about 95,000 )in May of 45 than under the atomic blast at Hiroshima.......