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    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 ...

  2. May 14, 2023 · Between 1936 and 1945, Unit 731 conducted torturous "experiments" on some 3,000 prisoners inside a secret facility in the northeastern Chinese district of Harbin. The gruesome story of Unit 731 and some of the most disturbing doctors in human history.

  3. Jun 7, 2024 · Unit 731, a Japanese Imperial Army program, conducted deadly medical experiments and biological weapons testing on Chinese civilians during WWII. Thousands of prisoners were killed in cruel experiments, and perhaps hundreds of thousands more died from biological weapons testing.

  4. Far less known is the wholesale slaughter of hundreds of thousands of Chinese by a Japanese organization known as Unit 731. Established for the purpose of developing biological and chemical weapons, Unit 731 exceeded by a year the duration of the Third Reich.

  5. Aug 12, 2023 · Unit 731 was responsible for some of the most notorious war crimes committed by the Japanese army. It conducted biological experiments on Chinese and Russian prisoners and developed...

  6. Nov 24, 2005 · Unit 731 was the first of several secret, detached units created as extensions of the research lab; the units served as field laboratories and test sites for developing biological weapons, culminating in the experimental use of biological weapons on Chinese cities.

  7. Dec 19, 2023 · They are referring to the major Japanese biological warfare unit in northeast China, Unit 731, that committed horrible atrocities from 1932 until the end of the Second World War. In 2015, the Unit 731 Criminal Evidences Museum was modernized. I visited this memorial in 2016.