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1 day ago · Unit 731 (Japanese: 731部隊, Hepburn: Nana-san-ichi Butai), short for Manchu Detachment 731 and also known as the Kamo Detachment: 198 and the Ishii Unit, was a covert biological and chemical warfare research and development unit of the Imperial Japanese Army that engaged in lethal human experimentation and biological weapons ...
Jul 7, 2024 · 7th July 2024, 02:19 GMT+10. HARBIN, July 6 (Xinhua) -- A total of 177 pages of Japanese military personnel registration forms detailing their work in Unit 731, a Japanese germ-warfare unit during World War II, were made public in Harbin, the capital of northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, on Saturday. The forms contain the personal ...
1 day ago · Unit 731 Case Origin and Purpose. Unit 731 was based in the Pingfang district of Harbin, within the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo (now part of Northeast China). The unit focused on biological and chemical warfare research and development. Victims endured unimaginable suffering, including disease injections, vivisection, and organ harvesting.
19 hours ago · On December 2, 1940, the Japanese Kwantung Army established four detachments for Unit 731 in Northeast China. The largest of these was in Linkou County, Heilongjiang Province. The newly unveiled document detailed this detachment, revealing that its organizational structure and personnel configuration closely mirrored those of Unit 731.
Jun 14, 2024 · The horrific human experimentation Ishii Shirō and his colleagues conducted at Unit 731 is a dark chapter in China’s War of Resistance against Japan.
19 hours ago · "This shows the deception of Unit 731, which recruited in the name of infantry as a disguise for its war crimes," Jin said. Experts believe that the forms provide key evidence for a comprehensive understanding of the composition of the Linkou Division, their transfer during the war, as well as their post-war activities, and are of great ...
3 days ago · New evidence of atrocities during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression (1931-45) was recently released by the Museum of Evidence of War Crimes by Japanese Army Unit 731 in Harbin, Heilongjiang province.
