In the final stages of World War II, as Japan braced for desperate fighting on its main islands and prepared to mobilize civilians for combat, the former Imperial Japanese Army¡¯s Noborito Laboratory manufactured weapons for guerrilla warfare.
A special exhibition highlighting the laboratory¡¯s activities during the period has opened at a museum in Kawasaki which occupies part of the former facility.
The laboratory traces its origins to the Army Scientific Research Laboratory, founded in 1919. In September 1939, it was reorganized as the Noborito branch, commonly known as the Noborito Laboratory.
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