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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.
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.
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.
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...
Unit 731, short for Manshu Detachment 731, was a unit of the Imperial Japanese Army that engaged in unethical and deadly human experimentation, including testing of biological and chemical weapons on human populations, during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945) and World War II.
Unit 731 of the Imperial Japanese Army carried out horrific medical experiments on thousands of prisoners of war and civilians; men and women were subjected to chemical and biological agents and vivisected to survey the results.
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 manufacturing during...
Dec 19, 2023 · The head of Unit 731 was Ishii Shiro (1892–1959), a Japanese medical doctor charged with developing bioweapons. Such tactics had been declared a war crime by the Geneva Conventions, and Japan had been one of 38 signatories ( Geneva Protocol 1925 ).
1936–1945: Unit 731 — the Asian Auschwitz — was a massive biological warfare research program of the Japanese Imperial Army under the command of Lt. General Dr. Ishii Shiro in Pin Fang, Manchuria outside the city of Harbin. Its true purpose was masked as the Epidemic Prevention Research Laboratory.
