Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan (293 page)

101.
Watanabe Toshihiko, “Nanaj
ichi butai to Nagata Tetsuzan,” in Ch
Daigaku Jinbun Kagaku Kenky
jo, ed.,
Nitch
sens
: Nihon, Ch
goku, Amerika
(Ch
Daigaku Shuppanbu, 1993), pp. 275–76, 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.,
Sh
gen 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 Ch
Daigaku Jinbun Kagaku Kenky
jo, ed.,
Nitch
sens
: Nihon, Ch
goku, Amerika
(Ch
Daigaku Shuppanbu, 1993), p. 296.