After the failed Operation U-go in
which the Japanese failed to take Imphal and Kohima, the Allies launched a
counter allowed to return to Burma
from the north. Thanks also to the support of
the Anglo-Indian and Chinese-American partners, Japan
began to lose the war in Southwest Asia in
late 1944 and early 1945, as is happening on other fronts. In
his long retreat south of Burma, the once powerful Japanese armies left behind,
traces of decay, as wounded, maimed, weapons, sick, evidence of mass suicides
or murders of prisoners, and other typical aberrations war, which would merit
an extensive review. Knowing that the war was
lost, the Japanese High Command in Southwest Asia,
is only limited to rethink their procedures and strategies to help overcome the
difficulties with the lowest possible casualties.
