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FACTORIES OF DEATH: Japanese Biological Warfare, 1932-1945, and the American Cover-Up
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FACTORIES OF DEATH: Japanese Biological Warfare, 1932-1945, and the American Cover-Up, Sheldon H. Harris, Routledge, New York, 2002, 385 pages, $24.95.
From 1931 to 1945 the Japanese Army engaged in biological warfare (BW) and chemical warfare (CW) experiments using live human subjects, which led to the first widespread use of bacteriological agents in the war. This definitive work about Unit 731 (the Japanese Army's bacteriological warfare center) and its commander, lieutenant General Ishii Shiro, is the result of more than 20 years of research, including 12 field trips to China.
Biological warfare was part of Japan's search for relatively cheap, war-winning weapons. …
