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Surgeon. is was to reduce the Allied force’s cost of shipping medicine to
occupied Japan. e list included water puri cation tablets, malaria

medicine, mosquito repellent, water chlorination kits, antistreptococcal

serum, vaccines for gas gangrene, dysenter y, and typhoid, typhoid ser um,

athlete’s foot medication, and others to show that the Ishii Net work had

been ver y productive and interconnected with Japanese corporations.

e ties that Unit 731 had with medical elds in Japanese universities
sped the process by which pharmaceutical companies could produce based

on research. University researchers who were considered civilian employees

and conducted independent research in Unit 731 had ties to Tokyo and

Kyoto University. ey were also on a rotation program for their res earch as

visiting scholars. One could be sure that they returned home with their
results and were ready to excel at a job inter view with a private employer to

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heighten the productivity of pharmaceutical companies in Japan.