历史学家查默斯•约翰逊写道:
“相比拿日本战争的战争罪行与德国相比,看谁对被占领国的的受害者更残忍是无意义的。德国人屠杀了600万犹太人及2000万苏联人,日本人屠杀了3000万东南亚人,其中至少有2300万中国人。两国都对其占领国进行了疯狂的掠夺,其中日本更甚,为期更长。两国都强迫征用数百万的劳工。另外日本还为前线部队征用慰安妇。如果你是被纳粹囚禁的英国,美国,澳大利亚,新西兰或加拿大(但不是苏联),你有4%的机率活不过战争,相比较,日军手中的联军战俘死亡机率为30%。”
• In China
o Nanking Massacre, 13 Dec. 1937-Feb. 38:
Spence, The Search for Modern China: 42,000
Gilbert: >200,000 civilians and 90,000 POWs
Dict.Wars: 200,000
Rummel: 200,000
P. Johnson: 200-300,000
27 Aug 2001 Newsweek, quoting Japanese textbook: "The number of dead is said to be over 100,000 and it is estimated to be over 300,000 in China."
Palmowski, Dictionary of 20th Century World History: "perhaps as many as" 400,000
Iris Chang, The Rape of Nanking (1997) cites these:
Liu Fang-chu: 430,000
James Yin & Shi Young: 400,000
Sun Zhaiwei: 377,400 corpses disposed of
Wu Tien-wei: 340,000
District Court of Nanking: 300,000
International Military Tribunal of the Far East: 260,000
Fujiwara Akira: 200,000
John Rabe: 50,000-60,000
Hata Ikuhiko: 38,000-42,000
[Median: 260,000]
o Unit 731, Manchukuo (bio-warfare center: 1937-45)
Discovery Channel: "as many as 200,000 people — Chinese soldiers, private citizens and prisoners of war — had died" Global Security: Up to 3,000 died in this facility. Perhaps as many 200,000 Chinese died from germ war campaign in Yunnan Province, Ningbo, and Changde.
Bombing: 71,105 Chinese k. by Japanese bombing (Clodfelter)
• TOTAL:
o Chalmers Johnson: "...the Japanese slaughtered as many as 30 million Filipinos, Malays, Vietnamese, Cambodians, Indonesians and Burmese, at least 23 million of them ethnic Chinese."
o Rummel blames the Japanese for 5,964,000 democides
POWs: 539,000 (400,000 Chinese)
Forced Labor: 1,010,000 (142,000 Chinese)
Massacres: 3,608,000 (2,850,000 Chinese)
Bombing/CB warfare: 558,000 (all Chinese)
Imposed Famine: 250,000 (none in China)
Rummel also estimates that General/Prime Minister Tojo Hideki was responsible for a lifetime total of 3,990,000 democides.
o Some guy on Internet Nanjing Massacre: 155,337 dead bodies
Chinese official estimate: >300,000
Japanese scholars:100-200,000
Datong Coal Mine, China: 60,000 slave laborers killed
Forced labor camps in Japan: 6,830 imported workers died
Singapore: 5,000 Chinese k -- another estimate: 50,000-60,000 k.
Burma-Siam RR: 12,400 POWs + 42,000 Asian wkrs