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Authors: Herbert P. Bix
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101.
Watanabe Toshihiko, “Nanajichi butai to Nagata Tetsuzan,” in Ch
Daigaku Jinbun Kagaku Kenky
jo, ed.,
Nitchsens
: Nihon, Ch
goku, Amerika
(ChDaigaku Shuppanbu, 1993), pp. 275â76, 296, citing (among other sources) Alvin D. Coox,
Nomonhan: Japan Against Russia, 1939
, vol. 2, p. 919; Tsuneishi Keiichi,
Kieta saikin butai
, and Eda Kenji et al., eds.,
Shgen jintai jikken
. Watanabe notes (p. 302, n. 68) that biological warfare weapons were transported to Nomonhan and that Japanese war crimes defendants at the Khaborovsk Soviet military tribunal (Dec. 1950) testified to having used them.
102.
Kojima,
Tenn, dai yonkan
, p. 9; Eguchi,
Taikei Nihon no rekishi 14, futatsu no taisen
, p. 274. A higher casualty figure of 19, 714 killed is given in Watanabe Toshihiko, “Nanasan ichi butai to Nagata Tetsuzan,” in ChDaigaku Jinbun Kagaku Kenky
jo, ed.,
Nitchsens
: Nihon, Ch
goku, Amerika
(ChDaigaku Shuppanbu, 1993), p. 296.