Thu, Aug. 6th, 2009, 12:14 pm
[info]tehrin: Out on the Streets, They Call it Murder

Hiroshima & Nagasaki : Instant casualties > 220,000 people instantly died, making a third of civilian Japanese deaths in the War
Later deaths: casualties > 90,000- 1,400,000 people by radiation/injury/other, including those who died before 1950, and grew larger over the years. Total unknown.

The number far dwarfs the amount of U.S. soldiers and civilians killed in the entire war (> 418,000) by at least double.

However, it is still far less than the total Chinese deaths of soldiers and civilians (10,000,000 to 20,000,000, probably greater). Total for Japanese deaths for soldiers and civilians over the war is > 2,700,000. Australian deaths: >41,800. Phillipino deaths: 557,000 to 1,057,000, possibly greater. Dutch East Indies: 3,030,000 to 4,030,000, possibly greater. French Indochina: 1,000,000 to 1,500,000, possibly greater. Korea: 378,000 to 533,000,000, probably greater. Singapore: >833,000. Et cetera. Et cetera.

People are more than just numbers. And that is only during the Pacific War (except for the U.S. statistics and perhaps the Australian ones), and not counting deaths after. I consider my paternal grandfather in those statistics because Iwo Jima literally drove him mad, deepened his alcoholism and abusive behavior, which led to his suicide in the 1970's. Remember.

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