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Japan campaign
Part of Pacific War

Task Force 38, of the U.S. Third Fleet maneuvering off the coast of Japan, 17 August 1945, two days after Japan agreed to surrender.
Date18 April 1942[1] – 1 September 1945[2]
Location
Mainland and Japan Islands, Pacific
Result

Allied Victory

  • Operation Downfall canceled with Surrender of Japan
  • Blockade lifted and famine narrowly averted by American food aid
  • American–led occupation of Japan
Belligerents

Japan campaign United States
Japan campaign United Kingdom
Japan campaign Canada
Japan campaign New Zealand
Japan campaign Australia

Japan campaign Soviet Union (from August 1945)
Empire of Japan Japan
Commanders and leaders

Japan campaign Franklin D. Roosevelt #
Japan campaign Harry S. Truman
United States Douglas MacArthur
United States William Halsey Jr.
United States Curtis LeMay
United States Chester W. Nimitz
United Kingdom Bernard Rawlings

Soviet Union Aleksandr Vasilevsky

Japan campaign Hirohito
Empire of Japan Hideki Tojo
Empire of Japan Shunroku Hata
Empire of Japan Kiichiro Higuchi
Empire of Japan Tadamichi Kuribayashi 
Empire of Japan Mitsuru Ushijima 
Empire of Japan Matome Ugaki 

Empire of Japan Seiichi Itō 
Casualties and losses
Comparatively light 193,300 soldiers dead (all causes)[3]
Surrendered and captured following blockade and bombings:
4,335,000 soldiers[4]
9,435 artillery pieces
5,286 tanks
731 other AFVs
12,682 aircraft (mostly kamikazes)[5]

The Japan campaign was a series of battles and engagements in and around the Japanese home islands, between Allied forces and the forces of Imperial Japan during the last stages of the Pacific campaign of World War II. The Japan campaign lasted from around June 1944 to August 1945.

  1. ^ The date of Double Strike, which is the beginning of Mainland Air Strike.
  2. ^ The Archipelago Landing Operation is over.
  3. ^ "Figures were compiled by the Relief Bureau of the Ministry of Health and Welfare in March 1964". Australia-Japan Research Project. Archived from the original on 11 March 2016. Retrieved 10 March 2016.. Combined death tolls of "Japan proper" (103,900) and Okinawa (89,400).
  4. ^ Ministry of Health and Welfare, 1964. Archived 2016-01-05 at the Wayback Machine
  5. ^ Final report: progress of demobilization of the Japanese Armed Forces, 30 December 1946 Part 2, Supreme Command of the Allied Powers, p. 49, archived from the original on 4 March 2016, retrieved 26 December 2015. Artillery is defined as being at least over 80 mm in caliber.

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