 The Japanese recorded around 1.1 to 1.9 million military casualties during all of World War II (which include killed, wounded and missing).The official death toll of Japanese men killed in China, according to the Japan Defense Ministry, is 480,000.Based on the investigation of the Japanese "Yomiuri Shimbun", the military death toll of Japan in China is about 700,000 since 1937 (excluding the deaths in Manchuria).