A subordinate of Japan s forces in the Pacific Theater of World War II

The distribution of Japan's military power in World War II is as follows:

The Japanese army is roughly divided into four theaters, the mainland as the base camp, the largest number of troops, mainly to other theaters of troops, 43 years of about one million troops, the Pacific theater usually remains at about 800,000, but the war losses are very large, the Kwantung Army as an army against the Soviet Union, in 43 years at about 1 million, the best equipment, China sent about 1.5 million troops, the worst equipment.

In World War II, Japan's military strength was extremely strong, and it was by no means vulnerable to the current TV drama propaganda, on this basis, the reasons for the analysis of Japan's aggression against China, the forced reparations of plunder, and the manpower and financial support for Japan's continued war, the traditional idea of militarism will inevitably lead to foreign aggression and expansion, and the abolition of the old hierarchical system will make the highly capable soldiers stand out.

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However, the high-level of the political system, designed to constantly profit from the war because of the independence of the military department, also led to unrestrained and continuous aggressive expansion, could not listen to the advice of certain strategists, and eventually led to the fate of defeat and surrender.

In 1937, Japan's total population was 70.63 million, of which 16.93 million were men of military age, and the number of men of military age who could be conscripted accounted for about 10 million percent, and the total strength of the Japanese army at that time was 10,000, which expanded to more than 7.2 million in 1942. In 1941, Japan launched the Pacific War, the United States and other 26 countries declared war on Japan, Japan put the main forces into the Pacific theater, and when it surrendered in 1945, Japan had only more than 1 million troops in China.

By the end of 1941, Japan's total strength had reached 2.4 million, of which about 300,000 were navy, part of which was put into the Pacific theater and part of it was tied to the Chinese theater, while its 2.1 million army troops were exhausted on the Chinese battlefield in addition to 400,000 remaining on the mainland, and only 400,000 army troops could be put into the Pacific theater. It was during the most intense and dangerous days of the Allied battles in the Pacific Theater that more than 2 3 of the total strength of the Japanese Army was "nailed" to the Chinese battlefield and could not move, causing its "southward advance" plan to be delayed again and again, thus enabling the Allied forces in the Pacific Theater to pass through the most dangerous period.

Navy: The Japanese Navy obviously does not take much care of the Chinese battlefield, before 1941 the Japanese Navy aircraft carriers had a direct battle against China, but at that time the navy participating in the battle against China accounted for only about 30% of the main force of the Japanese Navy, and after 1941, 98% of the Japanese Navy was in the Pacific theater. Therefore, the main force of the Japanese navy tended to the Pacific theater, and because of ---, I have to admit that China's naval strength at that time was really good.

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Air Force: The Japanese Air Force was the first in Asia at that time, and the war on the Asian continent relied on the advanced models, so it did not invest a lot, he used the advanced models to replace the lack of quantity, so during the entire World War II, Japan's air force in China accounted for only about 20% of the total, the reason is that in the later period of Japan's war with the United States, his advanced models were gone, and the old American planes were even more advanced than him, so after 1941, the Chinese battlefield did not have the large-scale bombing of the Japanese Air Force. Almost all of the air force was transferred to the Pacific theater to resist the advanced air force of the US army.

Army: This is the largest number of troops that Japan has invested in China. However, it only accounted for 40% of the Japanese army strength in the entire World War II (others say that it is 70%, which is incorrect, and 30% of the Kwantung Army and some Japanese armored forces are in Manchuria, and it is not China that really fights with Little Japan in Manchuria, but the Soviet Union).

In the early days, Japan threw its main forces into the battlefields of China, Manchuria and Southeast Asia. Ninety percent of the entire Japanese Army was there, but as before, from 1941 onwards, the Japanese began to send a large number of troops to the Pacific theater to defend the islands. Therefore, 70% of Japan's troops in the later period were in the Pacific theater, accounting for about 50% of the entire Japanese Army in World War II.

It can be seen from this that the overall Japanese army is still not as large as the army force invested in China in the Pacific Theater.

At that time, Japan threw all the troops of Class A and B on the Chinese battlefield into the Pacific Theater, including the Kwantung Army, which was the flower of the imperial army in the northeast at that time. The rest are old and weak soldiers, and I don't know how many there are. Japan's armed forces are divided into A, B, C, and D according to their combat effectiveness.

I can simply say that after the outbreak of the Pacific War, the Japanese troops in China were all Ding C or old and weak. To say that the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression ended with the result of our victory, or rather to say a draw. Japan did not lose and China did not win, Japan was dragged down by us, not defeated by us, and it was the United States that really defeated Japan.

Without the help of the United States, let alone the 8-year War of Resistance, the 80-year War of Resistance would have been possible!

Operation Plan (Attack on Pearl Harbor).

The full code name of the Japanese operation is here:

Operation plan of the USS Fengzi (sneak attack on Pearl Harbor).

AF Operational Plan (Battle of Midway).

Operational Plan Iraq (deployment in the direction of the Solomon Islands and Aleutian Islands) and Jet-1 Operational Plan (Battle of Leyte Gulf).

Operation Plan of the Heavenly Horn (Okinawa Special Skill).

Kikusui No. 1 Operation (Kamikaze Death Specialty).

Kikusui No. 2.

Kikusui 10 (ibid.).

Operation Decisive (Decisive Battle Plan at Home, not realized).

My personal estimate is that the regular army is probably around 2.5 million, and sometimes the numbers don't tell the whole story.

It's advantageous in Asia, because there's no industrial country nearby, it's all feudal and semi-feudal and even tribal areas, so it makes people feel like they're in Asia.

The Japanese army is quite powerful! Looking at the defeat of Soviet Russia, the worst power in Europe at that time, in Mongolia, the Kwantung Army, which had entered the city in Asia with great achievements, was completely defeated! There is no strong foundation of heavy industry and the overall cultural level of science and technology!

At the same time that the Kwantung Army was in full swing in China, they appeared in Mongolia to face the Soviet T-34 tanks, and the large and small artillery were all over, and there were even people with samurai swords rushing up to cut down the tanks.

The highest strength was at the end of 1944 and in the spring of 1945, with an armed force of about 8 million men, plus more than 1 million Chinese puppet troops (not counting the 200,000 in Manchukuo and the puppet Mongols).

Because the Japanese Navy was confined to the idea of a decisive battle with the fleet, Changtong did not attach great importance to the maintenance of the ground forces, and the accompanying Marine Corps equipment was not as good as that of the Army, after all, ground operations were only a sideline of the Navy at that time. The Marine Corps (Recruit Training Center) was initially responsible for the Marine Corps (Recruit Training Center) for Japanese naval soldiers, and the level of training was about the same as that of the Army's squadron instructor (company instructor), and after serving on a ship or on shore, most of the time between the preparation day and the boat training day was used to carry out land combat training, and the use of small-caliber guns was regarded as a part of artillery education in the Japanese Navy. The training of non-commissioned officers and cadres of the Marine Corps is entrusted to the Navy's Tateyama Artillery School, which can be said to be the main mountain of the Japanese Marine Corps.

The Marine Corps does not have a division of infantry and artillery engineering and other military departments like the Army, and due to the temporary and specially organized nature of the Marine Corps itself, it can only be regarded as an infantry unit that is not very specialized; However, having said that, the Marine Corps still operates a number of special weapons or organizes special units, such as the Type 92 wheeled armored vehicles and special internal fireboats (amphibious combat vehicles) used by the Shanghai Special Marine Corps, and the navy's parachute units (Heng 1 Special and Heng 3 Special) are unique naval paratroop units in the world. Most of the other heavy equipment is the model of the Yuanxun that follows the sea-carrying weapon, such as the ship's cannons and the secondary guns of the battleships (even the Ise and Hyuga 14?).

secondary artillery), high-angle artillery (12?, Wu Liute Air Defense Brigadehigh-angle guns) and so on.

As for the personal equipment of individual soldiers, the Marine Corps used the old three-five-year naval guns, which were modified from the three-year type infantry guns that had participated in the Russo-Japanese War, and the latter was only distributed to the rear training units in the army. In other aspects, because the Marine Corps does not need to consider long-term, long-distance marching movements, the individual load is much lighter than that of the Army, and the troops even have a variety of canned food, which is the envy of the Army officers and soldiers (such as canned eel).

In terms of amphibious warfare technology, the Japanese Marine Corps was still largely stuck at the level of the British Navy during World War I, and its hardware equipment was even inferior to that of the Japanese Army, and the Japanese Army's ship engineers at that time already possessed new equipment such as the Shenzhou Maru, which was much more efficient than the Navy in landing warfare.

In terms of operations, most of the marines in the early stage of the war were engaged in capturing small islands in the Pacific Ocean, in the middle stage, they were engaged in the garrison of bases and battlefield management, and in the later stage, they were engaged in the arduous battle of island hunting with the US military. The success of the Marines in the early stages of the war was not so much due to their own capabilities as to the enemy's poor preparation; In the middle and late stages, the work gradually became static, and compared with the high-mobility heavy division of the U.S. Marine Corps, the level was a generation behind, all in all, the Japanese Marine Corps was not the elite orange shed we imagined.