"Race-Specific" Weapons Against the Japanese

[Taro Toporific]

How US Anthropoligists Planned "Race-Specific" Weapons Against the Japanese
CounterPunch magazine, November 25, 2005
During the Second World War, over two dozen anthropologists worked for the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the institutional predecessor to the CIA, performing a variety of tasks .... one 1943 OSS document, the "Preliminary Report on Japanese Anthropology," which which reveals that World War II-era anthropologists were recommending culture- and race-specific means of killing Japanese soldiers and civilians. This report sought to determine if there were "physical characteristics in which the Japanese differ from others in such a way as to make these differences significant from the point of view of carrying on the war".....more....

[72hw]

Disturbing to say the least. Very disturbing.

But unfortunately not suprising, nor unique either. Japan has their own nasty little secrets too - places like Unit 731 in Manchuria duing WWII where large scale experimentation on the Chinese populace and POWs was carried out with similar results in mind.

For more on Unit 731 check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_731

We are a very twisted species of animal and I have been pondering more and more these days if a Bird Flu pandemic might not be a bad idea....

[dimwit]

Sounds more like an attempt to find work for antropologists during WWII. There many cases of the army or intelligence services trying to make use of arts' majors talents. At best, they resulted in seminal works like Samuel Stouffer's 'The American Soldier', in other cases you get race bombs.

[Mulboyne]

Sounds more like an attempt to find work for antropologists during WWII.

They were heavily involved in the US propaganda film "My Japan"

http://www.archive.org/details/MyJapan1945

[jingai]

A stunning revelation

But no "useful" morphological differences were isolated, and the recommendations proffered were of the run of the mill indiscriminate-extermination variety, advocating the use of "anthrax bacilli which attacks the respiratory tract, a known weak spot in the Japanese body, [as] the most effective agent."