A PLAGUE UPON HUMANITY The Hidden History ofJapan's Biological Warfare Program DANIEL BARENBLATT - Perennial An Imprint of HarperCollinsPubiishers Photographs courtesy of li Zhong Yuen; Museum of the Chinese People's Anti-Japan War, Beijing, People's Republic of China A hardcover edition of this book was published in 2004 by HarperCoilins Publishers Copyright © 2004 by Daniel Barenblatt Ail rights reserved Printed in the United States of America No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews For information address HarperColiins Publishers Inc., 10 East 53rd Street, New York, NY 1002'2 A PLAGUE UPON HUMANIlY HarperColiins books may be purchased for educational, business, or sales promotional use For information please write: Special Markets Department, HarperColiins Publishers Inc., 10 East 53rd Street, New York, NY 10022 First Perennial edition published 2005 Designed by Joseph Rut! The library of Congress has catalogued the hardcover edition as follows: Barenblatt, Daniel A plague upon humanity: the secret genocide of Axis Japan's germ warfare operation / by Daniel Barenblatt.-I st ed p cm Includes index ISBN 0-06-018625-9 I World War, 1939-1 945-Biological warfare-Japan World War, f "l" '