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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 ...
Yoshio Shinozuka (篠塚良雄; 1923 – 20 April 2014) was a Japanese Imperial Army soldier who served as an army medic with a top secret biological warfare group called Unit 731 in World War II. [1] He was a member of the Association of Returnees from China.
Executives at a leading Japanese bank apologized and took pay cuts on Thursday after police arrested an employee who allegedly stole about 1.4 billion yen ($9 million) worth of valuables from ...
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 ...
Mizuho Financial Group (2000) / Mizuho Bank / Mizuho Corporate Bank (2002) Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank (1971) Dai-Ichi Bank; Nippon Kangyo Bank; Fuji Bank; Industrial Bank of Japan; Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (2005) / The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ (2006) Mitsubishi Tokyo Financial Group (2001) / The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi (1996) The Bank of Tokyo
Daiwa formed a bank holding company, Daiwa Bank Holdings, in December 2001 to serve as the parent entity of Daiwa, Kinki Osaka Bank and Nara Bank. Later that month, Daiwa announced that Asahi Bank would be acquired by Daiwa Bank Holdings in a share swap transaction, forming the fifth-largest banking group in Japan. [ 7 ]
Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking Corporation (三菱UFJ信託銀行株式会社, Mitsubishi UFJ Shintaku Ginkō Kabushiki-gaisha) is the trust banking arm of the Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, a Japanese financial services group that is the largest in the world measured by assets. The bank is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.
The move by the Bank of Japan (BOJ) to raise its short-term policy rate to "around 0.5 per cent" comes just hours after the latest economic data showed prices rose last month at the fastest pace ...