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((Short description|Secret Imperial Japanese Army unit))((refimprove|date=March 2013))

((Weapons of mass destruction))

((nihongo|'''Unit 100'''|第百部隊|dai-hyaku butai)) was an [[Imperial Japanese Army]] facility  called the [[Kwantung Army]] '''Warhorse Disease Prevention Shop'''<ref>((cite book |author = 秦郁彦 |script-title = ja:昭和史の謎を追う (上) |language = ja |publisher = 文春文庫 |year = 1999 |isbn = 4-16-745304-5 |page = 546 ))</ref> that focused on the development of [[biological weapon]]s 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]].<ref name="trialmaterials" />((rp|312)) It had branches in [[Dairen]] and [[Hailar District|Hailar]]. The Hailar branch was later transferred to [[Foshan]].<ref name="trialmaterials" />((rp|313)) Between 600 and 800 people worked at Unit 100.<ref name="trialmaterials" />((rp|313))

== Organization ==
Unit 100 had six sections.<ref name="trialmaterials" />((rp|313-314))
# Bacteriological section
# Pathological section
# Animal Experimentation
# Organic chemistry
# Botanical, and plant pathology. Poisoning, or infecting, plants with the help of bacteria.
# Preparations for bacteriological warfare

==Mission==
((refimprove|date=July 2019))
The main purpose of Unit 100 was to conduct research about diseases originating from animals. As most armies were still heavily dependent on horses, the [[Imperial Japanese Army]] hoped to find ways to kill them and therefore to weaken military power. Furthermore, they hoped to spread disease via animal carriers. To this end, former members claim that experiments were also conducted with human beings. In practice, [[Unit 731]] was the group tasked with developing biological weapons against humans. Although smaller than Unit 731, Unit 100 was still a large organization. Its annual bacteria production capacity was projected to reach 1,000&nbsp;kg of [[anthrax]], 500&nbsp;kg of [[glanders]], and 100&nbsp;kg of red [[rust (fungus)]]. The goal was never reached, due to equipment shortages.

Senior Sgt. Kazuo Mitomo described some of Unit 100's human experiments:
:"I put as much as a gram of [[heroin]] into some porridge and gave this porridge to an arrested Chinese citizen who ate it; about 20 minutes later he lost consciousness and remained in that state until he died 15-16 hours later. We knew that such a dose of heroin is fatal, but it did not make any difference to us whether he died or lived. On some of the prisoners I experimented 5-6 times, testing the action of [[Convolvulus arvensis|Korean bindweed]], [[bactal]] and [[castor oil]] seeds. One of the prisoners of Russian nationality became so exhausted from the experiments that no more could be performed on him, and Matsui ordered me to kill that Russian by giving him an injection of [[potassium cyanide]]. After the injection, the man died at once. Bodies were buried in the unit's cattle cemetery."

Unit chief [[Yujiro Wakamatsu]] ordered Hirazakura to purchase hundreds of cattle and put them to pasture along the Siberian  border north-east of Hailar, ready to be infected by airborne dispersion. It was hoped that in the event of a Soviet invasion these infected livestock would mingle with local herds to cause epidemics and to destroy food supplies.

Unit 100 staff poisoned and drugged Russians, Chinese and Koreans with heroin, castor oil, tobacco and other substances for weeks at a time. Some died during the experimentation. When survivors were determined to no longer be useful for experimentation and were complaining of illness, staff told them they would receive a shot of medicine, but instead executed them with potassium cyanide injections. Executions were also carried out by gunshots.<ref name="trialmaterials" />((rp|323))

== Capabilities ==
Unit 100 could produce 1,000 kilograms of anthrax germs, 500 kilograms of glanders germs, and 100 kilograms of redrust germs in a single year.<ref name="trialmaterials" />((rp|329))

== Members ==
* [[Otozō Yamada]], Direct controller, 1944-1945<ref name="shokan">((cite book |last=Fuller |first=Richard |authorlink=Richard Fuller (historian) |date=1992 |title=Shōkan: Hirohito's Samurai |publisher=Arms and Armour |isbn=978-1-854-09151-2 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/shokanhirohitoss00full ))</ref>((rp|232))
* [[Lieutenant General Takahashi]], Chief of the Veterinary Administration of the Kwantung Army<ref name="trialmaterials" />((rp|312-313))
* [[Hirazakura Zensaku]], officer of the 1st and 2nd division from July 1942 to December 1943. Was in the 6th division from December 1943 until April 1944. He was then at [[Unit 543]] until the end of the war.<ref name="trialmaterials" />((rp|5,312))
* [[Fukuzumi Mitsuyoshi]], doctor<ref name="trialmaterials">((cite book |publisher=Foreign Languages Publishing House |date=1950 |title=Materials on the Trial of Former Servicemen of the Japanese Army Charged With Manufacturing and Employing Bacteriological Weapons))</ref>((rp|243))
* [[Sakurashita Kiyoshi]], civilian employee<ref name="trialmaterials" />((rp|243))
* [[Hataki Akira]], civilian employee<ref name="trialmaterials" />((rp|243))
* Wakamatsu, Major General of the Veterinary Service<ref name="trialmaterials" />((rp|326))

==Biological warfare agents==
The following potential agents were tested:
*''[[Yersinia pestis]]'', which causes [[Plague (disease)|plague]]<ref name="trialmaterials" />((rp|314))
*''[[Burkholderia mallei]]'', which causes [[Glanders]]<ref name="trialmaterials" />((rp|314)) in horses: Kuwabara gave testimony after World War II that Unit 100 released horses infected with Glanders.
*''[[Bacillus anthracis]]'', which causes [[anthrax]]<ref name="trialmaterials" />((rp|314))

== See also ==
* [[Japanese war crimes]]
** [[Unit 731]]
* [[Second Sino-Japanese War]]
** [[Kwantung Army]]

==References==
((Reflist))

== External links ==
* [http://www.skycitygallery.com/japan/japan.html The Other Holocaust].
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20050321034928/http://www.sjwar.org/htm/731.html Alliance for Preserving the Truth of Sino-Japanese War]

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((IJA special research units))

[[Category:Biological warfare facilities]]
[[Category:Japanese prisoner of war and internment camps]]
[[Category:Japanese human subject research]]
[[Category:Second Sino-Japanese War crimes]]
[[Category:Japanese biological weapons program]]
[[Category:Japanese war crimes in China]]
[[Category:War crimes in Manchukuo]]

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