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A Handbook of Modern Japan

Chapter 81: Army Statistics of Japan218
By Ernest W. Clement
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The work surveys Japan’s physical geography, economy, transport, daily life, customs, and national character, then reviews both older and modern history alongside constitutional, local, and legal institutions. It examines religion, philosophy, literature, education, aesthetics, social change, and the role of women, and it assesses Japan’s international position including wartime and expansion topics. The author presents social transformation as largely government-directed, with conservative popular attitudes contrasted against progressive official reforms. Organized into concise chapters with maps, illustrations, and bibliographies, the volume functions as a compact handbook offering an overview of contemporary conditions and references for further study.

Army Statistics of Japan218

Surgeon-Major Koike, in a lecture delivered before the Medical Union in the salon of the Musical College in Uyeno, gave some interesting figures relating to the casualties in the North-China campaign as compared with the China-Japan war of 1894-1895. These will be most easily understood by putting them into tabular form.

Total number of patients in the North-China campaign

 22,080

Total number of deaths out of the above aggregate

 1,137

(This, of course, is exclusive of those killed in the field; it shows only the sick and wounded.)

  North-China
Campaign.		 China-Japan
War.

Percentage of deaths

 5.1 8.1

Number of sick to each wounded man

 5.5 4.1

Number of deaths from sickness to each death from wounds

 2.3 9.7

Percentage of deaths among wounded men

 3.2 3.9

Percentage of deaths among diseased men

 4.2 8.4

Return of the Hiroshima Reserve Hospital

  North-China
Campaign.
Percentage of deaths among wounded men 2.1
Percentage of deaths among sick men 3.3

Comparative Figures (General)

Total percentage of deaths among wounded men:

Satsuma Rebellion 17.0
China-Japan War 9.7
North-China Campaign 4.6

Comparative Figures Showing the Percentage of Sick during the Occupation of Peking in the Winter

Russian troops

8.75 (typhoid, dysentery, syphilis).
French troops

5.42 (typhoid, syphilis).
German troops

5.33 (typhoid, syphilis, dysentery).
British troops

5.22 (sunstroke, diarrhœa, dysentery, and typhoid).
American troops

4.18 (dysentery, sunstroke, and syphilis).
Japanese troops

2.51 (kakke and typhoid).

Statistics of Russo-Japanese War.219

(Feb., 1904—May, 1905.)

Killed on field

 43,892

Wounded with colors

 145,527

Died of those wounds

 9,054

Sick, including wounds, accidents, etc., not received on firing-line

 162,556

Died of sickness and disease

 7,433

Contagious diseases

 10,565

Died of contagious diseases

 4,557

Killed and died from wounds

 52,946

Died from all diseases

 11,992