__ 1945 was the year that Japan surrendered. Though Japan had already lost its power to continue the war in the beginning of the year, Japan's wartime leaders would not stop fighting. They worried not about loss of Japanese civilians' lives but about empeler's soverieignty "Kokutai". Delay of its surrender resulted in huge number of deaths of Japanese civilians as follows.

March 9, Tokyo
__ 80,000 people was burned to death in just one night at the residential area of Tokyo by 1,667 ton of Incendiary Bomb. Subsequently, another major Japan cities such as Nagoya, Osaka, Kobe, Yokohama were also air-attacked.

April 1 to June 23, Okinawa
__ 120,000 islanders of Okinawa were killed by the Battle of Okinawa since April 1st to June 23rd. Okinawa, which had original culture and language in the past, became an onland battle field.

August 6, Hiroshima
__ 140,000 civilians lost their lives by just one atomic bomb. This number is an estimation at the end of 1945, does not include deaths by after effect in years followed.

August 9, Nagasaki
__ 74,000 civilians were killed by another atomic bomb just three days after Hiroshima.

August 15, 1945; Japan surrendered, it was the end of the War.