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The 9th Army Technical Research Laboratory (第9陸軍技術研究所, Dai kyū Rikugun Gijutsu Kenkyūjo), also known as the Noborito Laboratory (登戸研究所, Noborito Kenkyūjo), was a military development laboratory run by the Imperial Japanese Army from 1937 to 1945. The lab, based in the Noborito neighborhood of Tama-ku, Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, was originally founded in 1927 as the Shinoda Research Section, a division of the Army Science Research Institute under Captain Shinoda Ryo. The laboratory was focused on clandestine activities and unconventional warfare, including energy weapons, intelligence and spycraft, chemical and biological weapons, poisons, and currency counterfeiting.