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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.
Tucked away inside the administration building was a prison that housed 500 men, women, and children selected for vivisection. As immense as Ping Fang was, Unit 731 also had affiliated locations in Nanking (Unit 1644), Beijing (Unit 1855), and Changchun (Unit 100).
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.
Mar 17, 1995 · By conventional standards, few people were more cruel than the farmer who as a Unit 731 medic carved up a Chinese prisoner without anesthetic, and who also acknowledged that he had helped...
Nov 24, 2020 · Shiro Ishii oversaw Unit 731 and performed cruel experiments on prisoners until he was apprehended by U.S. forces — and given full immunity. Shiro Ishii opened Unit 731 in 1935, where unimaginable torture was inflicted on test subjects during World War II.
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 bacterial...
