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]
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Europe
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Phoney War
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Lapland
Denmark and Norway
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1940
1944–1945
Britain
Balkans
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Asia-Pacific
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Burma and India
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Central Pacific
Pearl Harbor
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Doolittle Raid
Midway
Gilberts and Marshalls
Marianas and Palau
Volcano and Ryukyu
Truk
Ocean Island
Indian Ocean (1941–1945)
Japanese merchant raids
Andaman Islands
Homfreyganj massacre
Christmas Island
1st Indian Ocean
Ceylon
Bay of Bengal
2nd Indian Ocean
Southeast Asia
Indochina (1940)
Franco-Thai War
Thailand
Malaya
Hong Kong
Singapore
Indochina (1945)
Malacca Strait
Jurist
Tiderace
Zipper
Strategic bombing (1944–45)
Burma and India
Burma (1941–42)
Burma (1942–43)
Burma and India (1944)
Burma (1944–45)
Southwest Pacific
Dutch East Indies (1941–42)
Philippines (1941–42)
RY
Solomon Islands
Coral Sea
Timor
Australia
New Guinea
New Britain
Philippines (1944–45)
Borneo (1945)
North America
Ellwood
Aleutian Islands
Estevan Point Lighthouse
Fort Stevens
Lookout Air Raids
Fire balloon bombs
Project Hula
PX
Japan
Air raids
Tokyo
Yokosuka
Kure
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Mariana Islands
Volcano and Ryukyu Islands
Starvation
Naval bombardments
Sagami Bay
South Sakhalin
Kuril Islands
Shumshu
Downfall
Japanese surrender
Manchuria and Northern Korea
Kantokuen
Manchuria (1945)
Mutanchiang
Chongjin
Second Sino-Japanese War
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Air raids
Doolittle Raid
Yawata
Nagaoka
Numazu
Tokyo
Meetinghouse
Nagoya
Osaka
Kobe
1st Kure
Sendai
Fukui
Fukuoka
Kōfu
Akita
Aomori
Gifu
Hamamatsu
Hiratsuka
Utsunomiya
Toyohashi
Toyokawa
Yokkaichi
Okazaki
Shizuoka
Kumagaya
Yokosuka
2nd Kure
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Battles
Mariana Islands
Volcano and Ryukyu Islands
Starvation
Naval bombardments
Sagami Bay
South Sakhalin
Kuril Islands
Downfall (cancelled)
Hokkaido (cancelled)
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.
^The date of Double Strike, which is the beginning of Mainland Air Strike.
^The Archipelago Landing Operation is over.
^"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).
^Ministry of Health and Welfare, 1964. Archived 2016-01-05 at the Wayback Machine
^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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