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Although Japan's light industry had secured a share of the world market, Japan returned to debtor-nation status soon after the end of the war. The ease of Japan's victory, the negative impact of the Shōwa recession in 1926, and internal political instabilities helped contribute to the rise of Japanese militarism in the late 1920s to 1930s.
In August 2020, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) became aware of nitrosamine impurities in certain samples of rifampin. [61] The FDA and manufacturers are investigating the origin of these impurities in rifampin, and the agency is developing testing methods for regulators and industry to detect the 1-methyl-4-nitrosopiperazine (MNP ...
French Indochina in 1913 Company of Vietnamese troops parading for ceremonial investiture with decorations at Etampes in World War I. A total of 92,311 Vietnamese men from Indochina were in the service of France and were distributed in the following formations:
Rifampin rapidly kills fast-dividing bacilli strains as well as "persisters" cells, which remain biologically inactive for long periods of time that allow them to evade antibiotic activity. [7] In addition, rifabutin and rifapentine have both been used against tuberculosis acquired in HIV-positive patients.
Japanese soldiers occupy an abandoned German trench during the Siege of Tsingtao, 1914 On 30 August 1914, New Zealand occupied German Samoa (now Samoa ). On 11 September, the Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force landed on the island of New Britain , then part of German New Guinea .
All major combatants stockpiled chemical weapons during the Second World War, but the only reports of its use in the conflict were the Japanese use of relatively small amounts of mustard gas and lewisite in China, [72] [73] Italy's use of gas in Ethiopia (in what is more often considered to be the Second Italo-Ethiopian War), and very rare ...
The development of Japan's biological weapons was highly secretive and led by Shiro Ishii. He planned and raised funds for Japan's biological weapons program. [9] [10] In 1939, the Imperial Japanese Army established Unit 1644 in Nanjing to conduct research on biological and chemical weapons. Units 1644 and 731 studied the effects of various ...
The First Indochina War (generally known as the Indochina War in France, and as the Anti-French Resistance War in Vietnam, and alternatively internationally as the French-Indochina War) was fought between France and Việt Minh (Democratic Republic of Vietnam), and their respective allies, from 19 December 1946 until 21 July 1954. [21]