>Overall, perhaps two thirds of all Japanese military dead (2.1 million) came not from combat, but from starvation and disease. In some cases this figure was potentially even higher, up to 80% in the Philippines and a staggering 97% in New Guinea.
Imagine being stranded in some jungle in the middle of the Pacific, knowing that there will be no support or resupply, subsisting on maggoty rice and muddy water, and slowly wasting away from malnutrition and tropical diseases. Most IJA soldiers were essentially killed by the US Navy.
How did they even hold those territories if they were starving?
The Allies just bypassed most of them. Japan still had a huge swath of Asia nominally under their control at the war's end.
>Bonin Islands
Iirc those are islands where they speak an English Japanese creole language created by American whalers and Japanese fisherman intermingling.
Does it still exist? The language, I mean.
if you'd read a book, you'd find that eventually, they didn't
Anon, they lost the war.
They died... most honorably.
>died honourably
>only had a bowl of rice for meals
>stuck on some shithole for months
>got the shits
>get either heem'd, bombed, machine-gunned or flame thrower'd to death
>only wounded
>receive only piss-poor medical treatment at best
>left to die
>american soldier comes across you and kills you without even the thought of taking you prisoner
>cuts off your head and sends it back as a trophy rest of body is left to rot
>ffw several years to the end of the war
>wife and daughter suck off GIs and diggers for money.
>honourable
They died defending their emperor
Nope. He was never in any real danger.
They died defending him regardless.
>Nope. He was never in any real danger.
Somehow I don't believe that. The Americans would have 100% demanded Hirohito's deposition or death if MacArthur hadn't been in charge of the occupation
That would have resulted in a lot of Jap chimpouts. Remember how smoothly removing Sadaam and not replacing him with any sort of continuity went for Iraq.
>No rice
>Lose my honor
Behold the incel argument
me
How can you starve on a tropical island? Spearfishing, handfishing, coconuts, tubers, small mammals, birds.
By being a cityBlack person jappoid who has a single clue how to survive in the jungle.
>Be 19 year old Japanese from Saitama
>Never been in a jungle in your entire life
>Grew up in a city or a farm in a temperate environment
>Shipped off to the ass ends of the earth in a totally new environment with flora and fauna you've never seen and diseases your body has no resistance to
Most of us would be fricked if you dropped us in the Amazon rainforest too
You really think you gonna spearfish and pick coconuts to feed a 5000 men brigade?
>dude just go spearfishing in the middle of a war
This isn't a Survivor realtv show
My grandfather who was tortured by the Japanese in a POW camp for four years.
I am sorry that that happened to your grandfather. May he rest in peace. I’m curious, what country was he fighting for? And if you are able and willing, could you tell us more about your grandfather?
Germany. He was on one of the submarine convoys, and somehow the Japs got the idea that he was involved in a scheme to sell off the blueprints he was delivering to the Soviet embassy.
While serving the German government was wrong, I can’t help but feel sorry for any poor bastard at the mercy of the Japanese. Frick the Japanese military during WW2, barbaric bastards.
He was an American soldier with Rusyn Byzantine Catholic ancestry. He was captured in the Philippines and was part of the Bataan Death March.
That isn't me lmao
Well regardless, frick the Japanese military at the time. Ruthless bastards. And I hope his time as a POW didn’t frick him up in the head or cause prrmanent injuries.
He got what he deserved for surrendering and for being a servant of the ABCD colonial powers.
Chinese
The POWs who got captured alive by Japanese soldiers had it worse than Jaoanese soldiers
Chinks
Before nips rolled in they were at civil war
They created their own hell in New Guinea by abusing and murdering the locals instead of using the Aussie-American strategy of giving them free shiny baubles in exchange for food and help. Japs slaughtered the fuzzy-wuzzies instead of trying to form a symbiosis. They also fricked up the same way in the Philippines and in Burma.
>Did anyone have it worse
Easily yes, the millions of romusha slave labourers for example.
God I wanna see what that big tiddy GI is going to do to that wounded malnourished petite nip.
>an American soldier with Rusyn Byzantine Catholic ancestry
What?