Originally Posted by Gatsby Originally Posted by

The majority of that 20 million were not combat casualties, but civilian losses.



And the reason that China is not mentioned is because it is almost unrelated to the decisive defeat of Japan. Japan wasn't crushed in the Pacific due to a lack of troops, but because of the complete destruction of the IJN - which China had no part in. And it was ultimately the USA's Pacific advance - completely reliant on said destruction of the IJN - that put the Allies in a position to knock out Japan either by the Atom bombs or if needed be invasion, which China also wouldn't have had a part in.



China suffered tremendously in the war and inflicted huge losses on Japan but frankly they are not worth mentioning if looking for the decisive events that directly led to Japan's defeat.