Civilian Casualties in Asia in WWII
There is an opinion among some American journalists that the Emperor of Japan should officially apologize to Asian peoples for the atrocity the Imperial Army and Navy inflicted to them during WWII.
But there are still doubts about the estimated number of civilian deaths in each Asian country for which the Empire of Japan was responsible:
Included with total war dead are victims of Japanese war crimes.
R. J. Rummel estimates the civilian victims at 5,424,000. Detailed by country: China 3,695,000; Indochina 457,000; Korea 378,000; Indonesia 375,000; Malaya-Singapore 283,000; Philippines 119,000, Burma 60,000 and Pacific Islands 57,000. Rummel estimates POW deaths in Japanese custody at 539,000 Detailed by country: China 400,000; French Indochina 30,000; Philippines 27,300; Netherlands 25,000; France 14,000; UK 13,000; UK-Colonies 11,000; US 10,700; Australia 8,000.[8][63]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties
Werner Gruhl estimates the civilian victims at 20,365,000. Detailed by country: China 12,392,000; Indochina 1,500,000; Korea 500,000; Dutch East Indies 3,000,000; Malaya and Singapore 100,000; Philippines 500,000; Burma 170,000; Forced laborers in Southeast Asia 70,000, 30,000 interned non-Asian civilians; Timor 60,000; Thailand and Pacific Islands 60,000.[64] Gruhl estimates POW deaths in Japanese captivity at 331,584. Detailed by country: China 270,000; Netherlands 8,500; U.K. 12,433; Canada 273; Philippines 20,000; Australia 7,412; New Zealand 31; and the United States 12,935[64]
The above described numbers are all very dubious and groundless.
Especially Korea was at the time part of Japan as the peninsula region had been annexed to the Empire in 1910. Since there were no large-scale insurgences in Korea during WWII, there could not be such big casualties in Korea as 500,000. It is a lie.
There were no major conflicts between the Imperial troops stationed in Indonesia and the Indonesian people. It is thought the number of civilian casualties of Indonesian people was just thousands.
As Imperial troops could not well invade and occupy the eastern part of India, though they tried hard, there could not be such a large number of Indian civilian casualties as 3,000,000. According to other American data, the number of deaths and missing persons in India during WWII was 48,674.
In Vietnam, there were no uprisings of Vietnamese people against Imperial troops, there could not be 1,500,000 deaths in Indochina.
These numbers cannot be all trusted. It is thought as they wanted big compensation from Japan they overstated the number of casualties after WWII.
How could 100,000 Japanese troops stationed in Vietnam for three and half years kill 1,500,000 Vietnamese?
How could 300,000 Japanese troops stationed in Indonesia for three and half years kill 3,000,000 Indonesians?
Those numbers are all exaggerated. How could 800,000 soldiers of the Imperial Army and Navy kill 20,000,000 Asians in three and a half years during WWII.
Even in the Nanjing Battle in late 1937 and early 1938, it is estimated that the number of deaths of Chinese civilians was about 10,000 in addition to 30,000 Chinese soldiers executed after having been taken prisoner.
From the beginning, Imperial troops and fleets advanced to Southeast Asia for natural resources as the US stopped exporting crude oil, iron, etc. to the Empire of Japan months before the Pearl Harbor attack. Japanese troops were not a band of gangsters. They did fight Western colonial rulers in Asia, including British troops, Dutch troops, American troops, etc. Imperial Japanese soldiers did not fought in WWII to kill civilian Asians so groundlessly. The world is so wrong and foolish to believe that the Imperial military of Japan killed 20,000,000 Asian civilians in 3.5 years during WWII. It is a big lie.
The most embarrassing thing is that even some professors of Harvard University trust these groundless figures overstated.
Anyway, in this situation, we cannot simply ask the Emperor of Japan to handle the case.
In addition, after WWII, 3,000 ex-Japanese soldiers joined Indonesians who fought for independence against their old colonial ruler Netherlanders. If Imperial soldiers had killed millions of Indonesian civilians, they should not have been asked to join the independence war after the Imperial military left Indonesia in 1945.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesian_National_Revolution)
Remember that those numbers about the Asian civilian deaths killed by the Imperial troops of Japan during WWII are all false.
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