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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}} The Unit focused on plant and animal biological warfare, producing and deploying livestock and crop viruses in China.<ref name="schulich.uwo.ca">{{Cite journal|last1=Johnson|first1=Kishor|title=A Scientific Method to the Madness of Unit 731's Human Experimentation and Biological Warfare Program|journal=Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences| url=https://www.schulich.uwo.ca/historymedicine/docs/Johnson_2021_JHMAS_Unit-731_Human-Experimentation.pdf|year=2021|volume=77|issue=1|pages=27|doi=10.1093/jhmas/jrab044|pmid=34897467 }}</ref> The Unit was led by Wakamatsu Yujiro.<ref name="schulich.uwo.ca"/> Unit 100 would cooperate with [[Unit 731]] when necessary.
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