Japan campaign

The Japan campaign was a series of battles and engagements in and around the Japanese home islands, between Allied forces and the forces of Imperial Japan during the last stages of the Pacific campaign of World War II. The Japan campaign lasted from around June 1944 to August 1945.

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Japan campaign
Part of Pacific War
Task Force 38, of the U.S. Third Fleet maneuvering off the coast of Japan, 17 August 1945, two days after Japan agreed to surrender.
Date 18 April 1942[1] – 1 September 1945[2] Location Mainland and Japan Islands, Pacific Result Allied Victory Operation Downfall canceled with Surrender of Japan Blockade lifted and famine narrowly averted by American food aid American–led occupation of Japan
Belligerents
United States  United Kingdom  Canada  New Zealand  Australia  Soviet Union (from August 1945)	Japan
Commanders and leaders
Douglas MacArthur William Halsey Jr. Curtis LeMay Chester W. Nimitz Bernard Rawlings Aleksandr Vasilevsky	Hirohito Shunroku Hata Kiichiro Higuchi Tadamichi Kuribayashi † Mitsuru Ushijima † Matome Ugaki † Seiichi Itō †
Casualties and losses
Comparatively light	193,300 soldiers dead (all causes)[3] Surrendered and captured following blockade and bombings: 4,335,000 soldiers[4] 9,435 artillery pieces 5,286 tanks 731 other AFVs 12,682 aircraft (mostly kamikazes)[5]