War is a form of violence, and as long as there is war, there will be casualties.
According to statistics, more than 2 billion people in 61 countries and regions around the world were involved in World War II, killing 70 million people and injuring 130 million people.
However, it is strange that according to the data released by Japan, the number of war casualties in Japan in World War II was the smallest among all countries.
In addition, in the Anti-Japanese Battlefield in China, there were relatively few Japanese prisoners who surrendered their guns.
For example, in the PingxingGuan Victory, the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army annihilated thousands of Japanese soldiers, but did not capture a single prisoner.
Soon after, General Chen Shiyu personally went out on horseback and captured the first Japanese prisoner alive.
This phenomenon did not change until the war and the later period, but in general, the phenomenon of fewer wounded soldiers and fewer prisoners of the Japanese army was still very prominent.
Although the Japanese distinguish themselves from ordinary human beings, they are still human beings after all, as long as they are human, they will have a fear of death and a desire to survive.
Therefore, when defeated, or obviously impossible to win, "surrender" is an option to save lives.
Japanese people are also "flesh and blood", where it may be "knife and gun", so it is common to be shot and injured.
So, what is the reason why the number of wounded soldiers in the Japanese is so small, and in addition, the Japanese soldiers prefer to die than surrender, is it really because they are not afraid of death?
This problem should be discussed in three stages.
At this stage in the early stage of the war, the morale of the Japanese army was high, and the entire country of Japan was fully prepared for war, so any wounded soldier would be treated at the first time.
Those who are seriously injured are sent to the base camp for medical treatment, or even returned to Japan for the best treatment.
If a soldier is killed in battle, the Japanese army will generally "collect the body" in a short period of time, concentrate on cremation, and then send the ashes back to Japan.
Some of the bodies of guansa who died in the war will also be sent back to Japan for a solemn burial.
While carrying out these "preferential care" measures, the Japanese army also strengthened the "Bushido" spiritual education for soldiers.
The so-called "Bushido spirit" is, in the final analysis, "no sacrifice of life", they repeatedly emphasize "death without remembrance, death without scruples, death without hesitation", that is, "proud of death".
Moreover, the loss of so-called "honor" is more terrible than death, and "sparing life" will be spurned by everyone.
The Japanese army's soft and hard approach is not only to boost the morale of the Japanese army, to calm the mood of the soldiers, so that the Japanese soldiers have no worries, but also to not give them other choices.
In the middle of the war, the superiority of the Japanese army has gradually disappeared, and the problems of lack of resources and lack of national strength have become more and more serious.
At this stage, the Japanese army can no longer take care of so much, no matter the severity of the wounded soldiers, they are generally treated in situ.
If the wounded are too serious and cannot be treated, the Japanese army will no longer "waste" resources, so the wounded soldiers choose to "break it themselves" and give limited resources to front-line combatants.
In the later stages of the war, the Japanese army was deteriorating, and during this period, the most feared thing for Japanese soldiers was not to die in battle, but to be seriously ill or seriously injured.
This is because they have witnessed the tragic death of sick and wounded soldiers.
In order not to be "dragged back" by these seriously wounded and seriously ill people, the Japanese army would cruelly "send" them on the road, and the most common way was to inject them with "comfort needles".
The so-called "comfort needle" is actually an "air needle".
"Air needle" is not a medical means, but a very dangerous medical accident, once the air enters the blood vessels more than 100 ml, it can lead to heart failure and death.
The person being injected looks terrible before dying: he has trouble breathing, his face turns purple, and he finally convulses and dies.
Therefore, the Japanese soldiers all hope that they will not get sick and injured, otherwise they will be "better off alive than dead".
In the final phase of the war, the Japanese army's way of dealing with the seriously wounded and sick was more brutal and simple: stabbing them directly, or shooting them.
This kind of beastly behavior of the Japanese army exterminates humanity, and it is definitely a "third-rate" behavior that cannot be put on the table.
Therefore, the Japanese army will not leave material related to it anywhere.
A number of photos of the Japanese "Unit 731" were exposed on the Internet, and on the original photos, they were stamped with a seal - "No Permission".
The so-called "no permission" is actually "unseen", dare not disclose, and refuse to admit it.
The Japanese army's act of injecting the seriously wounded and sick with "air needles" and shooting them directly naturally belongs to the category of "not allowing".
Therefore, in all the material information disclosed by the Japanese army, it is impossible to disclose the real number of war wounded, so there is a strange phenomenon written at the beginning of this article.
However, everything is "extremely counterproductive", the Japanese army is becoming more and more inhuman, and more and more Japanese soldiers are beginning to recognize reality.
As the war moved on, it was no longer so difficult to capture Japanese prisoners, and there were far fewer Japanese troops who "shattered" at every turn.
The Soviets even captured six hundred thousand Japanese troops at once.
There are many reasons behind the Japanese army, from preferring to die rather than being captured, to surrendering in groups.
However, the Japanese army cruelly treated the seriously wounded and seriously ill, and this kind of bestiality must have caused great stimulation and psychological harm to the Japanese soldiers.
The Japanese army in World War II exterminated humanity and lost all conscience, and will be nailed to the column of shame of history forever!