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  2. Unit 731 - Wikipedia

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    Unit 731 (Japanese: 731部隊, Hepburn: Nana-san-ichi Butai), [note 1] short for Manchu Detachment 731 and also known as the Kamo Detachment [3]: 198 and the Ishii Unit, [5] 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 ...

  3. Philosophy of a Knife - Wikipedia

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    Philosophy of a Knife is a 2008 Russian-American documentary exploitation horror film written, produced, shot, edited, and directed by Andrey Iskanov [].It covers the Japanese Army's Unit 731, mixing archival footage, interviews, and extremely graphic reenactments of experiments.

  4. Yoshimura Hisato - Wikipedia

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    Yoshimura Hisato (Japanese: 吉村 寿人; February 9, 1907 – November 29, 1990) was a Japanese war criminal, medical scientist, and physiologist who served as a member of Unit 731, a biological warfare unit of the Imperial Japanese Army, during World War II and conducted experiments on prisoners of war and civilians in Manchukuo, Northeast China.

  5. The Sea and Poison (film) - Wikipedia

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    The Sea and Poison (海と毒薬, Umi to Dokuyaku) is a 1986 Japanese film directed by Kei Kumai and based on a novel of the same name by Shusaku Endo. [1] It tells the true story of downed American pilots in World War II who are vivisected by Japanese surgeons in medical experiments at Unit 731.

  6. Shirō Ishii - Wikipedia

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    In 1935, Ishii was promoted to Senior Army Surgeon, Second Class (surgeon lieutenant-colonel). On August 1, 1936, Ishii would be given formal control over Unit 731 and its research facilities. A former member of Unit 731 recalled in 1998 that when he first met Ishii in Tokyo, he was surprised at his commander's appearance: "Ishii was slovenly ...

  7. Nisei (The X-Files) - Wikipedia

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    "Nisei" is a two-part episode, with the plot continuing in the next episode, "731". Inspired by the atrocities committed by Unit 731, a Japanese research program during World War II, "Nisei" was originally intended to be a stand-alone mythology episode, but was lengthened into two separate parts. The episode featured several scenes that ...

  8. American cover-up of Japanese war crimes - Wikipedia

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    In 1981, one of the last surviving members of the Tokyo Tribunal, Judge Bert Röling, expressed his unhappiness that the war crimes committed in Unit 731 had been protected by the US government and wrote, "It is a bitter experience for me to be informed now that centrally ordered Japanese war criminality of the most disgusting kind was kept ...

  9. War crimes in Manchukuo - Wikipedia

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    One of the most infamous was Unit 731. Victims were subjected to vivisection without anesthesia, and were used to test biological weapons, among other experiments. [8] Between 3,000 and 12,000 men, women, and children died during human experimentation conducted by Unit 731. [9] [10]