CASUALTY FIGURES
DISCLOSURES IN DIET
TOKIO, September 5. Reporting to the Diet, a Government spokesman said that Japan began the war with an army of about 1,900,000 and ended it with 5,500,000. Listed casualty figures were:— Army: 310,000 killed; 146,000 wounded; 4 470,000 sick. Forty thousand of the sick men died. . Navy 157,365 killed; 1430 died of sickness; 1483, missing. No figures were given of the wounded. The navy dead included 2065 members of special attack corps. ~ The spokesman added that about 65 per cent, of the army dead preferred death to dishonour. The Associated Press comments that this suggests they took their own lives. The Domei news agency said that air raids on Japan killed 241309 and wounded 313,041. Tokio lost 88,250' killed and 61,306 wounded, while 2 578 000 were rendered homeless. In Hiroshima 49,221 were killed and 58.839 wounded, and 359,000 are homeless, and in Nagasaki 21,501 were killed, 51,580 wounded, and 204,960 lost their homes.
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Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 59, 7 September 1945, Page 7
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