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Unit 731 and its affiliated units (Unit 1644 and Unit 100, among others) were involved in research, development and experimental deployment of epidemic-creating biological weapons in assaults against the Chinese populace (both military and civilian) throughout World War II.
Among those was Shiro Ishii, the commander of Unit 731. During the cover-up operation, the U.S. government paid money to obtain data on human experiments conducted in China, according to two declassified U.S. government documents.
Unit 731 was a biological and chemical warfare research and development unit of the Imperial Japanese Army. It engaged in lethal human experimentation during the Second Sino-Japanese War (World War II).
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.
Surgeon General Shirō Ishii (Japanese: 石井 四郎, Hepburn: Ishii Shirō, [iɕiː ɕiɾoː]; June 25, 1892 – October 9, 1959) was a Japanese microbiologist and army medical officer, who served as the director of Unit 731, a biological warfare unit of the Imperial Japanese Army.Ishii led the development and application of biological weapons at Unit 731 in Manchukuo during the Second Sino ...
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.
During World War II, deep in the occupied lands of Manchukuo, Japan operated a covert program known as Unit 731. A secretive compound became a horrifying epicenter for experiments on thousands of men, women, and children from China, Korea, and other countries. They even kept meticulous records which cataloged their subjects’ suffering as if they were mere data points.
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.
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.
The story of Unit 731 really began before the Second World War with the person who would eventually lead the unit’s activities, Shiro Ishii. Ishii was a medical officer in the Japanese military who specialized in studying infectious diseases.