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KOKUSHICORP.COM // MIRROR 03 OF 07
O-001  THE NUMBER BEFORE KOKUSHI
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STATUS:   DISPUTED
PERIOD:   1940s–1970s
ADDED:    01 Dec 2009
SHA-1:    47D499364076
SOURCE:   https://kokushicorp.com/files/wartime-numbering/
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A subject-numbering pattern later used by Kokushi appears in disputed
wartime research material predating the corporation.

## What the claim actually is

This archive does not claim that Kokushi Corporation formally existed
during WWII.

The narrower allegation is that personnel, terminology, filing systems
or research practices survived the war and entered postwar medical,
corporate or academic networks from which Kokushi later recruited.

A numbering format later found in Human Engineering records appears in
copies of wartime medical and behavioural research material.

Authentication of the wartime copy remains disputed.

## Nazi experimentation links

Researchers have also pointed to the postwar circulation of German and
Japanese military medical literature, including material produced
through unethical human experimentation.

No document here proves a direct Kokushi–Nazi institutional connection.

The credible historical question is whether later researchers associated
with Kokushi cited, inherited or normalised methods that originated in
wartime experimentation programmes.

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