On July 4th, 20 15, the State Council Press Office held a briefing on the results of the investigation on casualties and property losses in China during the Anti-Japanese War. At the briefing, a batch of data was released for the first time, including more than 50,000 Japanese soldiers were killed or injured in China during the Anti-Japanese War, 35 million soldiers and civilians were killed or injured in China, and the direct economic loss was $/kloc-0.0 billion, and the indirect economic loss was $500 billion.
194 1 Before the outbreak of the Pacific War, the battlefield in China was the only battlefield to fight against Japanese fascism, containing and fighting 80% of the total Japanese forces, reaching 94% at the highest. From the outbreak of the Pacific War in 194 1 to the winter of 1943, Japanese troops in China accounted for more than 50% of the total, reaching 69% at the highest.
During the Pacific War, Japan still had about 165438+ 10,000 troops for the battlefield in China, exceeding the sum of the Japanese troops in Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands. More than 700,000 Kwantung troops are stationed in the northeast. Because the China battlefield contained the main force of the Japanese army, the Japanese army could not mobilize more troops to the Pacific battlefield, which strongly supported the Allied forces' operations in the Pacific.
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193 1 September, Japanese imperialism began to launch a war of aggression against China. The scale, time, destruction and influence of this war are unprecedented. 14 years, the Japanese invaders occupied a large area of land in China. From the northeast to Hainan, from the coast to the inland, the great rivers and mountains of China were trampled by the Japanese invaders.
Wherever the Japanese army went, houses and factories were destroyed, resources and wealth were plundered, and people's lives were killed. This war brought great disaster to the people of China and interrupted the modernization process of China.
The large-scale Japanese invasion of China resulted in the death of a large number of Japanese soldiers in the battlefield. During the war of aggression against China, the Japanese army carried out the massacre policy, resulting in the Nanjing Massacre and the Lushun Massacre, and there were more than 0/00 tragedies in North China.
The implementation of germ warfare, chemical warfare and poison gas warfare led to a large number of deaths of China soldiers and civilians; Implement the "three lights" policy, create no man's land, and forcibly persecute Chinese workers; Wait a minute. During War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, there were as many as 35 million military and civilian casualties in China.
Japan's invasion of China also indirectly killed a large number of people. For example, China's natural ecology was severely damaged by Japanese invasion of China. 1930 to 1940 was the worst disaster period in China's modern history, with droughts, floods and locust plagues.
During the period of 1942- 1943, drought and locust disaster occurred in Henan. "Water, drought, locust, soup (Tang war disaster)" is a true portrayal of the suffering of Henan people. At that time, the Yangtze River Basin and the Yellow River Basin were flooded with famine, with bare land and numerous bones.
After the famine in 1930s and 1940s, there was a plague epidemic in North China and Central China, and acute infectious diseases such as cholera, typhoid fever, smallpox, plague and dysentery ravaged the whole country. Due to the lack of medical care and medicine during the war, a large number of people died, all of which were the consequences of Japan's war of aggression against China.
In addition to the abnormal deaths of a large number of people, more people were forced to leave their homes. During the Japanese war of aggression against China, large-scale abnormal population movements and passive migration occurred in various places. In addition to a large number of ordinary people moving to nearby villages or mountainous areas to escape the war, the most typical one is the large-scale population flow from coastal areas to the southwest (partly to the northwest).
This large-scale population movement is the result of Japan's war of aggression against China, which is also rare in world history. A large number of people were forced to flee, suffering in the process of migration and living a wandering life.
People's Daily Online-China War Damage Data Released10.5 million Japanese casualties.