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electrical experiments. Two bandits were used by each squad for the
experiments.

1. Phosgene gas—5-minute injection of gas into a brick-lined room; the

subject was still alive one day aer inhalation of gas; critically ill with

pneumonia.

2. Potassium cyanide—the subject was injected with 15 mg.; subject lost
consciousness approximately 20 minutes later.

3. 20,000 volts—several jolts were not enough to kill the subject; injection

of poison required to kill the subject.

4. 5000 volts—several jolts were not enough; aer several minutes of

continuous current, subject was burned to death.”

Word must have reached the Japanese scienti c community ; the New Japan

Medicine Report published in 1934 stated, “ e Ninth General Japan

Medical Conference is a big event on this small archipelago in the Far East.

Japan’s medicine is now independent from the medical community of the
world. We have already been ousted from the League of Nations [;] it is the

feeling of the people that in the eld of science, others will look up to Japan”.

e Tōgō Unit established a strict security system to keep its res earch

highly con dential. Surprisingly, during the Mid-Autumn Festival on the
th th
15 day of the 8 lunar month in 1934, 16 Chinese prisoners es caped from
prison, making it difficult for the Tōgō Unit to sustain con dentiality at the

Zhong Ma location.