“Japan put into use the most elaborate and effective system of sanitation that has ever been practiced in war,” he wrote. For instance, “every hospital throughout Japan, and every base and field hospital in Manchuria, has its bacteriological laboratory.” The author praises the work done by “Japan’s corps of trained experts with the microscope, that the dread phantom of disease might be intercepted.” He describes the use of X-ray equipment at hospitals, and even portable X-ray machines in field hospitals. In contrast, war correspondents recorded a statement by one of the Russian officers caught
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