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Unit 100 (第百部隊, dai-hyaku butai) was an Imperial Japanese Army facility called the Kwantung Army Warhorse Disease Prevention Shop[1] that focused on the development of biological weapons during World War II. It was operated by the Kempeitai, the Japanese military police. Its headquarters was located in Mokotan, Manchukuo, a village just south of the city of Changchun.[2]: 312 It had branches in Dairen and Hailar. The Hailar branch was later transferred to Foshan.[2]: 313 Between 600 and 800 people worked at Unit 100.[2]: 313
The Unit focused on plant and animal biological warfare, producing and deploying livestock and crop viruses in China.[3] The Unit was led by Wakamatsu Yujiro.[3] Unit 100 would cooperate with Unit 731 when necessary.
- ^ 秦郁彦 (1999). 昭和史の謎を追う (上) (in Japanese). 文春文庫. p. 546. ISBN 4-16-745304-5.
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