Zhejiang-Jiangxi campaign

Zhejiang-Jiangxi campaign
Part of the Second Sino-Japanese War, World War II
A Japanese soldier with 50 mm heavy grenade discharger during the Zhejiang-Jiangxi Campaign, 30 May 1942
Date (1942-05-15) (1942-09-04)May 15 – September 4, 1942 (3 months, 2 weeks and 6 days) Location Vicinity of Zhejiang, Jiangxi Result Japanese victory
Belligerents
China  United States	Japan
Commanders and leaders
Gu Zhutong Shangguan Yunxiang Tang Shih-Tsun Wang Jingjiu Li Jue Xue Yue Ou Zhen Shi Zhongcheng Wang Yaowu Xia Chuzhong Sun Du Feng Sheng-Fa Ding Zhipan Wang Tieh-Han Chang Wen-Ching Tao Kuang Liu Yu-Ching Fan Tse-Ying Mo Yu-Shuo	Shunroku Hata Shigeru Sawada Korechika Anami Sanji Ōkido Tetsuzo Ide Takayuki Uchida Toshijiro Takeuchi Johkichi Nanbu Haruo Yamamura Hachiro Tagami Tagaji Takahashi Shigeru Ōga Saburo Takehara Takejiro Imai Tokutaro Ide Giichi Hirano Naotsugu Sakai †
Units involved
Republic of China Army	Imperial Japanese Army Unit 731
Strength
300,000	180,000
Casualties and losses
70,000 killed in action	36,000[citation needed]
250,000 civilians massacred[1][2]

The Zhejiang-Jiangxi campaign or the Chekiang–Kiangsi campaign (Japanese: 浙贛作戦, simplified Chinese: 浙赣战役; traditional Chinese: 浙赣戰役; pinyin: Zhè-Gàn Zhànyì), also known as Operation Sei-go (Japanese: せ号作戦), was a campaign by the China Expeditionary Army of the Imperial Japanese Army under Shunroku Hata and Chinese 3rd War Area forces under Gu Zhutong in Chinese provinces of Zhejiang and Jiangxi from mid May to early September 1942.

Japanese troops used biological weapons against Chinese soldiers and civilians alike. Japanese soldiers also committed massacres throughout the battle, resulting in over 300,000 Chinese deaths. Shunroku Hata, the commander of Japanese forces involved in the massacre of the 250,000 Chinese civilians, was sentenced in 1948 in part due to his "failure to prevent atrocities". He was given a life sentence but was paroled in 1954 after only serving six years.