Editing Russo-Japanese War (section)

=== Casualties ===
[[File:Forces returning 2.jpg|thumb|Japanese propaganda [[Woodblock printing in Japan|woodcut print]] showing Tsar Nicholas II waking from a nightmare of the battered and wounded Russian forces returning from battle. Artist [[Kobayashi Kiyochika]], 1904 or 1905.]]

Sources do not agree on a precise number of deaths from the war because of a lack of [[body count]]s for confirmation. The number of Japanese Army dead in combat or died of wounds is put at around 59,000 with around 27,000 additional casualties from disease, and between 6,000 and 12,000 wounded. Estimates of Russian Army dead range from around 34,000 to around 53,000 men with a further 9,000–19,000 dying of disease and around 75,000 captured. The total number of dead for both sides is generally stated as around 130,000 to 170,000.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://necrometrics.com/20c100k.htm#RJW|title=Twentieth Century Atlas – Death Tolls|website=necrometrics.com|access-date=17 October 2013|archive-date=10 September 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170910100407/http://necrometrics.com/20c100k.htm#RJW|url-status=live}}</ref>

After the [[Siege of Port Arthur|siege of Port Arthur in 1905]], [[Nogi Maresuke|General Nogi Maresuke]], who led the Japanese army during the siege, felt so guilty about the loss of many Japanese soldiers that he wanted to commit [[Seppuku|ritual suicide]], but the Japanese [[Emperor Meiji]] refused to allow it; instead, Maresuke mentored the future [[Hirohito|Emperor Hirohito]] and built hospitals. After Emperor Meiji died in 1912, Maresuke and his wife committed suicide, 7 years after the siege of Port Arthur.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Egorov |first=Boris |date=2019-02-08 |title=4 facts about the war in which Russia didn't win a single battle |url=https://www.rbth.com/history/329952-4-facts-about-japan-war |access-date=2023-11-06 |website=Russia Beyond |language=en-US}}</ref>