How hard was it for Japan to destroy one American army in World War II?

We all know one thing in China, before the Sino-Japanese War began, the Beiyang navy visited Japan, it is said that at that time, the famous Japanese general Togo Heihachiro saw the Qing sailors drying their clothes on the cannons, so he concluded that despite the fact that the Beiyang navy had huge ships that Japan did not have, they would surely lose in a fight, the reason was that "the warships and cannons are valuable things, and those who despise weapons so much will not apply it properly. It will not be properly applied."

The story has been passed down in China for hundreds of years, and in Japan too, but it was honored as a model of success, and since then the Japanese army has gone to an extreme: the belief that weapons are sacred things given by the emperor, and must not be desecrated.

Japan's World War II because there is a strict household registration, conscription work carried out very simple, Japanese folk often jokingly, each Japanese soldier's life is worth only 15 cents.

And a 38-type rifle price is 100 yen, so the Japanese recruits training, accidentally dropped the rifle firing pin to the ground, is a big deal, may lead to the whole team of recruits were punished to run two kilometers: you bunch of waste than the rifle is much cheaper!

Before the war with the United States in World War II, a Japanese officer in the United States saw Americans treating weapons:

American soldiers rode on cannons without a care in the world to take pictures and pose for photographs.

So the Japanese were quickly reminded of the sailors of the Beiyang Marine Division who hung their clothes on the cannons, and so they too came to the conclusion that an army so disrespectful of its sacred weapons was incapable of fighting! Despite its national strength, the United States was bound to lose against a Japanese army with spiritual power!

But in fact the United States compared to Japan at the time, is a fairly modernized country, in the late 1930s universal automobile, while the same car penetration rate Japan to the 1970s, China is the 2010s to reach, so every American is familiar with the machinery, and guns are even less mysterious, and Japan at the time? Many soldiers from rural areas had never even seen a car before joining the army.

For backward countries like Japan and China at the time, state propaganda was needed to "sacralize" valuable weapons to raise awareness of their use among less qualified soldiers,

but for American soldiers familiar with modern civilization, this was completely unnecessary! The U.S. military's view of weapons is a complete tool, how to use how to use, neither like farmers from the Chinese soldiers have no sense of maintenance, nor like the Japanese army as an ancestor to provide.

The U.S. military's emphasis on people is reflected in the logistics, for example, the U.S. military in World War II was equipped with ice-cream makers on almost every ship that was in a position to do so!

In World War II, the U.S. Navy fished out pilots who had fallen overboard and could go to the pilot's squadron and ask for a family bucket of ice cream the same weight as the pilot as a reward (supposedly enough for 160 people).

And the Japanese? Except for a few battleships such as the most luxurious Yamato, which had western level catering because they needed to entertain high ranking officials, the rest of the warships had mediocre food, and that's with the relatively westernized Japanese Navy, as for the Japanese Army, it was simply indifferent in terms of logistical supplies and catering for its soldiers!

Some friends will take the same period of the Chinese army's diet and the Japanese army to compare, or come up with the Japanese army has canned beef to refute, but I have to say, the logistics of the Chinese army during World War II, itself is not a normal country's standards, the Japanese army logistics than the same period of the Chinese than, to put it mildly is like saying "you are taller than Guo Jingming " as well, is not a compliment at all okay!

In the famous India - Imphal operation was Mou Taguchi Lieutenant General commanded nearly 100,000 Japanese troops, in the case of logistics is almost cut off was ordered in the jungle to keep moving forward, this kind of place transportation logistics is very difficult, so the front-line Japanese rations finally downsized to 0.3 two rice per person per day.

When lower-ranking Japanese troops asked for more supplies to at least keep their soldiers fed, the response from their Japanese Army superiors was, "The Japanese have been a grass-feeding people since ancient times. You are surrounded by such dense jungle and you actually report a lack of food?"

This means that it was thought that the Japanese army could fight on grass!

The above different understanding of logistics, weapons, the final reflection is the battle performance, in the Battle of Nomenkan, the Japanese army faced the Soviet army, although the tragic defeat, but according to the now declassified historical materials to see the casualties basically and the Soviet army equivalent.

But in the Pacific War, Japan and the United States casualty ratio is even higher than China against Japan!

The Battle of Guadao: fought for 6 months starting in August 1942, with about 5,000 U.S. troops killed and 6,700 wounded. The Japanese **** had about 50,000 killed.

The Battle of Rabaul: fought from February 1943 through March 1944, the U.S. Army lost about 2,000 killed and 3,000 wounded. Japanese casualties totaled more than 25,000 officers and men.

The Battle of the Marshall Islands: the number of U.S. troops killed and missing in action was 568, with 2,108 wounded. About 11,000 Japanese troops were killed and wounded, and 329 were captured.

Philippine Campaign: from December 1944 through May 1945, U.S. forces suffered 62,000 casualties and Japanese casualties and prisoners amounted to 450,000 men.

The Battle of Okinawa: from March through June 1945, the U.S. Army suffered 13,000 killed in action, 36,000 wounded, and another 26,000 non-battle casualties; the 100,000 Japanese defenders, all but 9,000 captured, were wiped out, and 75,000 civilians were killed or wounded on Okinawa.

The total casualty ratio even reached a staggering 1:10 or more. At that time, there were only 72 million people in mainland Japan, while the population of the United States during the same period was nearly 150 million. The side with fewer people had no appreciation for human resources, and despised the value of human life in logistics and combat ideology, so it was inevitable that they would lose.

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