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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 manufacturing ...
May 14, 2023 · Inside Unit 731, Japan’s Disturbing Human Experiments Program During World War II. By Richard Stockton | Edited By John Kuroski. Published May 14, 2023. Updated March 12, 2024. These six "experiments" by Unit 731 rank among some of the most horrifying war crimes ever committed — and they went virtually unpunished.
Established for the purpose of developing biological and chemical weapons, Unit 731 exceeded by a year the duration of the Third Reich. While biological and chemical weapons were not new to warfare, Japanese testing on human subjects was unparalleled even by the Nazis.
Sep 29, 2021 · The truth is that Japan's Unit 731 committed some of the most heinous war crimes ever. Thousands of prisoners were killed in cruel human experiments at Unit 731, which was based near the northeastern China city of Harbin, north of the Korean peninsula and on a border with Russia.
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 , short for Manchu Detachment 731 and also known as the Kamo Detachment 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 the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945) and ...
Aug 12, 2023 · Officially known as the Epidemic Prevention and Water Purification Department of the Kwantung Army, Unit 731 operated in a suburb of the northeastern Chinese city of Harbin. Unit 731 was...
