Atomic bomb research notes found at Kyoto Univ.

[yuiyoshida]

The Yomiuri Shimbun


Notebooks used by a researcher working on development of an atomic bomb at Kyoto Imperial University, now Kyoto University, during World War II have recently been discovered.

As sources that shed light on Japan’s wartime atomic bomb research, the three notebooks found at the Radioisotope Research Center at Kyoto University are particularly valuable because materials concerning such development work at the university were confiscated by U.S. forces immediately after the end of the war.

The notebooks belonged to Sakae Shimizu, who later became a professor emeritus at Kyoto University. He died in 2003. Various documents are inserted into the notebooks. Akira Masaike, 80, a professor emeritus of the university who specializes in particle physics, confirmed that the notebooks were stored at the center when he visited there in May.

The notebooks have “Ultracentrifuges” and “2604th year” of the Imperial reign written on their covers. They are believed to have been used in October or November of 1944.

http://the-japan-news.com/news/article/0002334173

[snagglepuss]

1. The Japanese were killing 100,000 people every month during the war

and their war atrocities have been deemed worse than those perpetrated by the Germans who weren't as clever as the Japanese who meticulously destroyed evidence of war crimes .


Had they developed the bomb first they'd have no compunction using it.