| Japanese Civil War | |||||||
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 Empire of Japan Republican Chinese Empire
|  NSFJ Empire of Russia
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| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
| Hirohito Chiang Kai-shek
| Hideki Tojo (until 1957) Kantarō Suzuki (1957-1961) Vladmir II
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| Strength | |||||||
| 395,200 20,000
| 217,900 75,100
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| Casualties and losses | |||||||
52,533 killed 170,235 injured 7800 POW 9754 killed 13,544 injured 190 POW | 110,772 killed 86,320 injured 4182 POW 24,112 killed 32,543 injured 1823 POW |
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The Japanese Civil War (Japanese: 帝国国民戦争 Teikoku-Kokumin Sensō literally: Empire-Nationalist War), known in China as 日本內戰 (lit. Japanese Civil War) and in Russia as Японский гражданской войны, was a civil war in Japan fought between forces loyal to the Emperor of Japan, and forces loyal to the Nationalist Front of Southern Japan.
The war was an ideological dispute due to the dissatisfaction that former Imperial Japanese War Minister Hideki Tojo felt when the Emperor overruled General Tojo's attempt to completely destroy the former British Colony of Singapore.