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** Brooks mentions a completely fictional (but cool-sounding) WWII-era Japanese chemical warfare unit called BLACK DRAGON, who tested the zombie virus on Japanese dissidents. This is frustrating for a few reasons: 1, there probably weren't enough Japanese openly opposed to the war for this group to get any more than a handful of potential test subjects,[[labelnote:*]]Japanese culture has always and still does (to a point) emphasize minding one's own business and not making a public fuss, even if you completely oppose something. Throw in that many Japanese citizens were patriotic and Japan's propaganda machine made ''damn sure'' to make themselves look good at every opportunity during the war (to the point that many Japanese citizens weren't even sure that Japan had lost the war until the Emperor himself had to come up and say "[[{{Understatement}} the war situation has developed not necessarily to Japan's advantage]]"; even after this, the Emperor had to prevent an ''assassination attempt'' by generals who didn't want to surrender!) and it means that even those who did oppose the war did not say much about it anyways.[[/labelnote]] and 2, the fairly well known Unit-731 actually existed, and actually ''did'' conduct biological warfare experiments on prisoners of war and enemy civilians (mostly Chinese) during the war. BLACK DRAGON develops zombie paratroopers, and then drops them, not on American or Commonwealth forces, or even on Nationalist Chinese troops, but on Communist Chinese guerillas, a faction quite notable for not fighting any pitched battles against IJA forces after 1940, focusing almost entirely on guerilla activity and building up their own power base for the eventual resumption of the civil war. This would be roughly the equivalent of Hitler developing one atomic bomb and then dropping on Belarusian partisans.
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** Brooks mentions a completely fictional (but cool-sounding) WWII-era Japanese chemical warfare unit called BLACK DRAGON, who tested the zombie virus on Japanese dissidents. This is frustrating for a few reasons: 1, there probably weren't enough Japanese openly opposed to the war for this group to get any more than a handful of potential test subjects,[[labelnote:*]]Japanese culture has always and still does (to a point) emphasize minding one's own business and not making a public fuss, even if you completely oppose something. Throw in that many Japanese citizens were patriotic and Japan's propaganda machine made ''damn sure'' to make themselves look good at every opportunity during the war (to the point that many Japanese citizens weren't even sure that Japan had lost the war until the Emperor himself had to come up and say "[[{{Understatement}} the war situation has developed not necessarily to Japan's advantage]]"; even after this, the Emperor had to prevent an ''assassination attempt'' by generals who didn't want to surrender!) and it means that even those who did oppose the war did not say much about it anyways.[[/labelnote]] and 2, the fairly well known Unit-731 actually existed, and actually ''did'' conduct biological warfare experiments on prisoners of war and enemy civilians (mostly Chinese) during the war. BLACK DRAGON develops zombie paratroopers, and then drops them, not on American or Commonwealth forces, or even on Nationalist Chinese troops, but on Communist Chinese guerillas, a faction quite notable for not fighting any pitched battles against IJA forces after 1940, focusing almost entirely on guerilla activity and building up their own power base for the eventual resumption of the civil war. This would be roughly the equivalent of Hitler developing one atomic bomb and then dropping it on Belarusian partisans.
