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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 ...
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.
Oct 17, 2012 · Unit 731 (731部隊), based in the Pingfang district of Harbin and led by the infamous Japanese microbiologist Shiro Ishii, was a covert biological warfare research and development unit of the Imperial Japanese Army that undertook human experimentation during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945) and World War II.
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.
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.
The pardon of Japanese war criminals, among whom were Unit 731's commanding officers General Shiro Ishii and General Masaji Kitano, was overseen by General of the Army Douglas MacArthur in September 1945.
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...
Mar 25, 2018 · Unit 731 was a secret Biological and Chemical Warfare Unit that Imperial Japan had established during the World War II. Eager to win the war, the scientists involved committed a lot of inhumane crimes like vivisection to Chinese, Korean, Russian, and Mongolian prisoners of war, and used the data gained to harm many Chinese civilians.
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.
Responsibility for Japan’s secret germ-warfare program, organized as Unit 731 in Harbin, China, extended to top government leaders and many respected scientists, all of whom escaped indictment.
