Did more innocent Americans die in World War II than innocent Japanese citizens?
Here is a real singwell answer. It depends on what you mean innocent Americans. If you mean innocent American soldiers, then that is one total. If you mean American civilians, that is another. Wikipedia has a list of casualties by country. Here is what comes up for the US and Japan: US Population=131,028,000 Soldiers lost=407,300 Civilians lost= 11,200 Total= 418,500 0.32% Japan population=71,380,000 Soldiers lost=2,000,000 Civilians lost=600,000 Total= 2,600,000 3.61% The biggest loser of population in WW2 was Poland, which lost 16.10% of its population, swelled by 3 million in the Holocaust. The next was the Soviet Union with 13.77% of its population lost (23 million people, almost 11 million of soldiers and civilians, and one million in the Holocaust.) It is horrific to think what effect losing such a percentage of your people must have on a nation.
