Casualties in the Pacific
Australia: Over 17,000 deaths; 14,000 wounded.
China: An estimated 5 million military casualties (killed and wounded); civilian casualties estimated between 10 and 20 million.
India: Over 24,000 deaths in military action; an estimated three million civilian deaths as a result of war-related famine in 1943.
Great Britain: 30,000 deaths; number of wounded unknown.
Japan: 1.8 million deaths in military action; 500,000 civilians killed.
United States: 80,000 deaths; number of wounded unknown.
It is difficult to estimate the number of civilians killed in the course of the war but in total many millions, in the Netherlands East Indies, the Pacific Islands, the Philippines, Burma, Malaya and Korea, died as a result of Japanese occupation and military engagements in their countries.
Comparison of Japanese and U.S. Military Production Figures
Combatant Nations
Australia: After Pearl Harbor and the invasion of Malaya, Australia declared war on Japan in December 1941.
China: Invaded by Japanese in 1937, although the Chinese region of Manchuria had been invaded six years earlier. The China Incident, as the Japanese called their fighting there, became part of the Pacific War, and part of World War II as a whole, after Japan attacked the U.S. at Pearl Harbor in 1941.
Great Britain: Britain and Japan were at war after the Japanese invasion of Malaya in 1941. Britain was already a combatant nation in World War II, having declared war on Nazi Germany in September 1939.
Japanese Naval Strength on December 7, 1941
Japan: Japan was at war with China from 1937. After Japan both attacked Pearl Harbor and invaded the British colony of Malaya at the end of 1941, Japan was at war with the U.S. and Britain.
United States: Japan and the United States were at war after Japan attacked Pearl Harbor in December 1941.
U.S. Warships Completed or Obtained between July 1940 and September 1945
Pacific War Crimes Trials: Verdicts and Sentences
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