How many American soldiers killed in post war Japan 1945?

Answer 1

i believe a few hundred died as a result of typhoons which struck in the fall of 1945 after Japan's surrender. had the united states not dropped the two atomic bombs on japan and an invasion occurred in the fall of 1945 and the spring of 1946, typhoons which struck japan may have severely damaged or destroyed the invasion fleet and hundreds or thousands of allied troops would have killed as a result of the storms in addition to the thousands or hundreds of thousands of casualties which would have occurred in invading japan. add to that an earthquake which struck japan in the spring of 1946 killing hundreds of people. imagine the added devastation that would have to the allied armies fighting in japan. the japanese would have considered these natural acts acts of the gods in punishing the allies for invading japan. the first typhoon in japanese history wiped out a mongol invasion fleet sent to invade japan in 1281. the japanese considered that event an act of the gods in saving japan from invasion, and they named the storm kamikaze or divine wind. thus when World War 2 occurred the japanese planes sent to crash into the allied fleets invading their islands in the pacific and perhaps their country as well were called kamikaze after the storm of 1281. the japanese would have been heartened by the seemingly supernatural events sent by the gods- a series of storms wiping out the invasion fleet and an earthquake killing hundreds or thousands of enemy troops even if these same events killing thousands of japanese. this is why it was best to drop the a bombs when the us did, because these were already a series of air raids which struck japan and damaged their cities and killed scores of people, but that would have been the start of planned military actions against japan. had an invasion actually occurred in 1945 or 1946 events naturally occurring would have devastating for the allied forces invading japan in addition to the thousands of casualties predicted to occur in such an invasion.