By the first week of January, disease, starvation, and battle had reduced Hyakutake's command to about 14,000 troops, with many of them too sick and malnourished to fight.
Da man nåede den første uge af januar, havde sygdom, sult og kamp reduceret Hyukutakes styrke til omkring 14.000 tropper, hvoraf mange var for syge og underernærede til at kunne kæmpe.