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Authors: Herbert P. Bix
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6.
Ibid., p. 28.
7.
Ibid.
8.
Awaya and Fujiwara, “Kaisetsu,” p. 376. On May 14, 1938, the League of Nations adopted a resolution condemning the Japanese use of poison gas.
9.
Ibid., p. 377.
10.
Yoshimi, Matsuno, “Dokugasusen kankei shiry
II, Kaisetsu,” p. 28.
11.
Ibid., p. 29.
12.
Ibid. For a discussion of the emperor and biological warfare, see Yoshimi Yoshiaki, Ik
Toshiya,
Nana san ichi butai to tenn
, rikugun ch
(Iwanami Bukkuretto No. 389, 1995), pp. 8â9.
13.
Yoshimi, Ik
,
Nana san ichi butai to tenn
, rikugun chu
, pp. 8â9; Stephen Endicott, Edward Hagerman,
The United States and Biological Warfare: Secrets from the Early Cold War and Korea
(Indiana University Press, 1998).
14.
Maeda Tetsuo,
Senryaku bakugeki no shis
: Gerunika, J
kei, Hiroshima e no kiseki
(Asahi Shinbunsha, 1988), pp. 156, 157, 167, 420.
15.
The warning of what could happen did little to check the growth of Japanese purchases of American products. By 1940 the United States still accounted for 36 percent of Japan's total imports. Oil constituted 75 percent of that total. Seventy percent of Japan's iron, 35 percent of its cotton, 32 percent of its machinery, and 90 percent of its copper all came from the United States.
e Shinobu,
Tosuiken
(Nihon Hyoronsha, 1990), p. 195.
16.
Eguchi, “Chugoku sensen no Nihongun,” p. 61, citing the document drafted by Tanaka Ry
kichi.
17.
Himeta Mitsuyoshi, “Nihongun ni yoru âsank
seisaku, sank
sakusen' o megutte,” in Ch
Daigaku Jinbun Kagaku Kenky
jo, ed.,
Nitch
sens
: Nihon, Ch
goku, Amerika
(Ch
Daigaku Shuppanbu, 1993), p. 120.