JAPANESE ARMY AND NAVY CASUALTIES
Recd. 1 a.m. New York, Sept. 6. Reporting to the Diet, a Japanese Government spokesman said Japan’s Army and Navy casualties totalled about 5,085,000. Japan began the war with an army of about 1,900,600 and ended it with 5,500,000. Listed casualty figures are: Army, 310,000 killed, 146,000 wounded and 4,470,000 sick, of whom 40,000 died. Navy: 157,365 killed, 1430 died of sickness and 1483 missing. No figures were given of the wounded. The Navy dead included 2065 members of the special attack corps. It was added that about 65 per cent, of the Army dead preferred death Jo dishonour. The Associated Press comments that this suggests they took their own lives.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 89, Issue 212, 7 September 1945, Page 5
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