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  Unit 731
Prince Mikasa, toured Unit 731's headquarters in China and wrote in his memoirs that he was shown films showing how Chinese prisoners were "made to march on the plains of Manchuria for poison gas experiments on humans." Premier Tojo personally presented an award to Ishii for his contribution to developing biological weapons.
As the end of the war approached in 1945, Unit 731 embarked on its wildest scheme; codenamed Cherry Blossoms at Night, the plan was to use kamikaze pilots to infest California with the plague.
As the Japanese army retreated from China as the war was ending, plague-infected animals were released and caused outbreaks of the plague that killed at least 30,000 people in the Harbin area from 1946 through 1948.
www.ww2pacific.com /unit731.html   (2093 words)

  
  Japanese units of measurement - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The units originated in the Shang Dynasty in the 13th century BC, and eventually stablized in the Zhou Dynasty in the 10th century BC and spread from there to Japan, South East Asia, and Korea.
The Japanese unit of mass, momme, is a recognized unit in the international pearl industry.
Japanese bicycles are based on a British system, and the tyre sizes are measured in inches rather than centimetres.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Japanese_unit   (953 words)

  
 Units: S
These are units of flow rate for gases, and the term "standard" indicates that the flow rate assumes a standard temperature and a standard pressure of 1 atmosphere.
This unit was originally called the bit [2], because when the message is a bit string and all strings are equally likely, then the information content turns out to equal the number of bits.
The unit, called the stokes in Britain and the stoke in the U.S., is named for a British mathematician and physicist, Sir George Gabriel Stokes (1819-1903), who described the basic principles of fluid mechanics in 1845.
www.unc.edu /~rowlett/units/dictS.html   (10538 words)

  
 Units: K
The unit, pronounced "cattle," was added to the International System at the 21st General Conference of Weights and Measures in October 1999.
The unit is often abbreviated K, although this conflicts with the symbol for the kelvin.
a common metric unit of force, the kilonewton equals 1000 newtons; it is a force that will accelerate a mass of 1 metric ton at the rate of 1 meter per second per second.
www.unc.edu /~rowlett/units/dictK.html   (3897 words)

  
 Japanese Studies
The unit is very intensive and is designed to develop skills in all areas of contemporary Japanese language, including aural comprehension and pronunciation as well as basic reading and writing in Kana and Kanji.
This unit, offered in the first half-year, is for students who completed JPN110 and JPN111 Introductory Japanese I and II in their first year of Japanese study and who are concurrently enrolled in JPN221 Japanese Language II (1).
The aim of the unit is to familiarize students with a diversity of economic issues through the reading and analysis of a wide range of Japanese source materials.
www.asianlang.mq.edu.au /japanese/und040.htm   (2241 words)

  
 Unit 731 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The unit was disguised as a water purification unit, and was based in the Pingfang district of the northeast Chinese city of Harbin, part of the puppet state of Manchukuo.
Unit 731 was one of many units used by the Japanese to research biological warfare; other units included Unit 516 (Qiqihar), Unit 543 (Hailar), Unit 773 (Songo unit), Unit 100 (Changchun), Unit 1644 (Nanjing), Unit 1855 (Beijing), Unit 8604 (Guangzhou), Unit 200 (Manchuria) and Unit 9420 (Singapore).
Japanese defense counselor, Michael Levin, argued the claim was vague and uncorroborated and it was dismissed by the tribunal president Sir William Webb for lack of evidence.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Unit_731   (3468 words)

  
 Department of Japanese   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Emphasis is on the changing world of the Japanese writer, the influence of Buddhism and Confucianism, and the role of the texts in shaping Japanese aesthetic principles.
Japanese majors concentrate on Japanese language and literature and are strongly urged to begin language study in their first year.
The major consists of a minimum of eight units and normally includes JPN 202, 231, 232, and five additional units: at least two must be non-language units, and a total of at least two must come from the 300 level (to be taken within the Department).
www.wellesley.edu /DeanCollege/CCI/Proposed/japanese.html   (1365 words)

  
 The Asian Auschwitz of Unit 731 - theage.com.au
In the gruesome world of Unit 731 of the Japanese Imperial Army, experiments with frostbite on human subjects became a favourite in a macabre litany of cruelty.
His perverted imagination was captured by the possibilities of biological and chemical warfare, and in the Japan of the 1920s and '30s, he found supporters in the increasingly nationalistic and fanatical military.
Yamane believes that the Japanese Government should apologise and compensate the victims of the "terrible damage" done during the war in Asia.
www.theage.com.au /articles/2002/08/28/1030508070534.html   (1605 words)

  
 The Japanese Texans
In December 1941 the similarity of Japanese immigrant life to other Texas ethnic groups changed drastically with the surprise attack by Japan's navy on Pearl Harbor, signaling the beginning of U.S. involvement in World War II.
Suddenly Japanese Texans who had lived in the United States for most of their adult lives found their loyalty to the U.S. being questioned.
Ironically, at the same time the nation was focusing its suspicions on Japanese Americans, many of those same Japanese were attempting unsuccessfully to join the U.S. armed forces to fight the Axis powers.
www.texancultures.utsa.edu /txtext/japanese/htms/1.htm   (214 words)

  
 Chronology of Japanese Holdouts
A Japanese unit of 120 men was routed after a battle in the mountains 150 miles south of Manila.
Japanese officials were studying new information to confirm whether two elderly men in the southern Philippines were soldiers left over from World War II, but suspicion was rising of a hoax or a trap set by kidnappers.
The story of former Japanese soldiers ready to emerge from the mountains 60 years after the war has attracted a horde of media, mostly from Japan, to the city of General Santos on the troubled island of Mindanao.
www.wanpela.com /holdouts/list.html   (1980 words)

  
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The Japanese army, which was then occupying a large chunk of China, evicted the residents of eight villages near the city of Harbin in Manchuria to make way for the headquarters of Unit 731.
When the United States prepared to attack the Pacific island of Saipan in the late spring of 1944, a submarine was sent from Japan to carry biological weapons it is unclear what kind - to the defenders.
But a Japanese Navy specialist said the navy would have never allowed Its finest equipment to be used for an army plan like Cherry Blossoms at Night, partly because the highest priority in the summer of 1945 was to defend the main Japanese islands, not to launch attacks on the United States mainland.
www.centurychina.com /wiihist/germwar/germwar.htm   (2651 words)

  
 Tanka Essay
It seems the preference for ending Japanese poetry in these early days was with the 5-7-7 onji pattern; however, as stated earlier, 5-7-5 was often used as a substitute and was equally acceptable in terms of aesthetics and appreciation.
This is because, like the French language, the Japanese language lacks stress accents where the uniform stress on the last syllable of each word makes it impossible for poets to observe the kinds of metrical patterns favored by Western poets since the ancient Greeks.
Japanese words, for the most part, all end in one of 5 open vowels; therefore, without trying, a poet has a 20% likelihood of achieving rhyme.
www.ahapoetry.com /richtank.htm   (1917 words)

  
 THE WAR . At War . Fighting for Democracy . Japanese Americans | PBS
The Japanese government had been making effective propaganda in Asia out of the internment of Japanese Americans in the U.S.; the camps appeared to confirm their depiction of the war as a racial conflict.
Japanese Americans were now permitted to form a special segregated infantry outfit – the unit would come to be called the 442nd Infantry Regimental Combat Team.
But not all Japanese Americans were eager to serve a government that had forced so many of them and their families into internment camps.
www.pbs.org /thewar/at_war_democracy_japanese_american.htm   (1215 words)

  
 The Rape of Nanking
White-coated Japanese medics claiming to be from a government epidemic-prevention unit would arrive at villages unannounced, saying that they were there to implement hygiene measures or to administer vaccinations.
When neither the Japanese Government nor the U.S. was prepared to admit to either the crimes or cover-up, a small group of conscientious Japanese human rights activists, doctors, lawyers and former soldiers formed an unprecedented alliance with the Chinese.
Eisuke Matsui, Japanese Professor of radiology at Gifu University school of Medicine, said he was compelled to uncover Japan's germ warfare in order to educate the young generation of Japan.
rapeofnanking.tv /Unit731.html   (2940 words)

  
 Japanese Unit 731 - Biological Warfare Unit [Japanese Disected American Airmen]
Hashimoto's story is mentioned in a Japanese book and I believe the dissection story is in it as well and is condemned by the writer and those with whom he interviews.
After hearing their stories...A-bombs were totally justified, no one should ever apologize to the Japanese for using the A-bomb, Japan deserved it in a BIG way.
The others deal primarily with the Japanese government finally acknowledging it occurred (it was only last decade that they acknowledged sex slave camps of "comfort women" akin to the Nazis' Joy Division).
www.freerepublic.com /focus/news/740572/posts   (2792 words)

  
 00.04.03: Our Past Acclaims Our Future: Japanese-American Artists Respond To the American Experience Roger Shimomura, ...
This unit is dedicated to all the idealists who believe in the engagement of strategies that enhance communication, develop cross-cultural understanding and awareness and lead to more positive learning outcomes.
Japanese immigrants faced unique legal restrictions based on their race that limited their opportunity to own and lease land, denied them access to citizenship and the ability to develop and exercise political power.
Japanese American sacrifices during the war were acknowledged by President Ford in 1975 with a proclamation titled “The American Promise.” He stated, “We know now that what we should have known then- not only was the evacuation wrong, but Japanese Americans were and are loyal Americans”.
www.yale.edu /ynhti/curriculum/units/2000/4/00.04.03.x.html   (9705 words)

  
 Asian Holocaust : WMD Opium, Sex Slaves, Nanjing Massacre, Pillage, Slavery, WMD Unit 731, 100, 516
Japanese military found that the opium-smoking Chinese troops were the first to surrender and that the dope addicts of Mukden were the least troublesome of the civilian population.....
Japanese showered 7 WMD Biological pathogens on Zhejiang province to retaliate the Doolittle Tokyo Raid.
Japanese freelance director Tomoko Kana was on a sightseeing tour of China in 2003 when she came across a waitress whose life was so miserable that Kana had to find out her story.
www.skycitygallery.com /japan/japan.html   (15417 words)

  
 Japan Focus
To the Japanese scholars who have labored to unearth the facts of Japanese wartime BW experimentation and to American observers of contemporary Japanese society, the “New Education” movement represented by Fujioka is understandably cause for concern.
Despite official Japanese resistance to restitution, the widespread Japanese public exposure to an increasingly tangible record of wartime BW experimentation in the 1990s marks a genie that cannot be returned to its bottle.
But by shifting the focus from the purported “culture” to the politics of Japanese “forgetfulness” after 1945, it does suggest that an important indicator of future developments may be found less in certain Japanese cultural practices (as is often stressed in the literature on Japanese bioethics),[73] than in the political lay of the land.
japanfocus.org /products/details/2543   (6712 words)

  
 Japanese 2 Syllabus
I have no way of verifying each absence and giving you extra time to do an assignment or allowing you extra days to study for a quiz or test that other students have already taken is patently unfair to the rest of the class (besides the security considerations involved in taking late tests).
I assume you have signed up for Japanese 2 at a time that is convenient to you and at a time that work, appointments, and family responsibilities will not interfere.
C. Evaluation: Students in Japanese 2 are evaluated on the basis of quizzes and tests.
www.wvup.edu /Academics/humanities/Oldaker/japanese_2_syllabus.htm   (1677 words)

  
 Review of Japanese Biological Warfare and Unit 731
The other was the Wakamatsu Unit (after the name of its commander Yujiro Wakamatsu, later changed to Unit 100) to be built at Mengchiatun, near Changchun; to the outside it was called Department of Veterinary Disease Prevention of the Kuantung Army.
However, she did not take the Japanese biological program seriously, Harris believes, simply because Japan was far away from U.S. homeland and could not launch a massive attack on America and also because Japanese being Asian were incapable of developing sophisticated biological weapons without the help of white men.
China and North Korean began to accuse the United States of using CW and BW on March 5, 1951, a campaign which was stopped only with the conclusion of the war in 1953.
www.centurychina.com /wiihist/germwar/731rev.htm   (5283 words)

  
 US paid Japanese Unit 731 members for data
The United States paid money and gave other benefits to former members of a Japanese germ warfare unit two years after the end of World War II to obtain data on human experiments conducted in China, according to two declassified U.S. government documents.
He is the only veteran of the unit to have testified on behalf of the Chinese victims of Japan's bacterial war operations.
The total amount paid to unnamed former members of the infamous unit was somewhere between 150,000 yen to 200,000 yen.
www.chinadaily.com.cn /english/doc/2005-08/15/content_469100.htm   (697 words)

  
 Teaching Timeline
JAPANESE PAINTINGS AND THE IMPACT OF LOCATION AND GEOGRAPHY ON Students will demonstrate their understanding of the impact of location and geography
Before beginning the lesson, students will have studied Japanese geography, culture, and early history (up to 1945).
Before beginning the lesson, students will have studied Japanese geography, culture, and early history through the period of feudalism, including the concepts of Cino-centrism and isolationism since those will be tied to this lesson.
www.iusb.edu /~ucart/japan_unit.htm   (1447 words)

  
 Japanese Jo to Square Meters Conversion Calculator - Convert Japanese Tatami: Jo Tatami Mats to Square Meters
Japanese Jo to Square Meters Conversion Calculator - Convert Japanese Tatami: Jo Tatami Mats to Square Meters
FACTS: A "jo" is a Japanese unit of area measurement used in real estate.
The size of a jo (corresponding to the size of a tatami mat) varies by region in Japan.
www.teaching-english-in-japan.net /conversion/japanese_jo   (130 words)

  
 Bristol University - Language Centre - Unit information
Units are offered as open units to students from all faculties.
For details of unit objectives, assessment criteria, contact hours and prerequisites, refer to the unit description.
The Language Centre offers units in applied foreign language for second year medical students as part of an agreed programme of study.
www.bris.ac.uk /languagecentre/afl/japanese/unitinfo.html   (500 words)

  
 Analysis: Japanese Unit Sold, Vodafone Considers Its Verizon Wireless Stake - Networking Center - Network Computing
In the wake of the Vodafone Group's sale of its Japanese unit to SoftBank, the U.K.-based mobile wireless firm can turn its attention to its 45 percent interest in Verizon Wireless.
Although Vodafone is in line to receive $11.9 billion in cash for its Japanese division, that sum is still well below the $40 billion to $49 billion impairment charge that Vodafone announced in recent days.
One reason Vodafone's Japanese unit struggled is that the CDMA2000 standard used by KDDI was poaching on Vodafone's customers.
www.networkcomputing.com /channels/networkinfrastructure/183700561   (384 words)

  
 Online conversion of weights and measures, measurement conversion.
Unit Conversion Tool 5.1 - a powerful software utility that helps you make easy conversion between more than 2,100 various units of measure in more than 70 categories.
Now you can add units conversion gadget to your Google homepage, your desktop (Google Desktop must be installed) or any other webpage, even your blog.
The units are arranged by cathegory and alphabetically.
www.convert-me.com /en   (877 words)

  
 Pimsleur Japanese Study Notes: Pimsleur Japanese 1 - Unit 1 Notes
This blog is about learning Japanese using the Pimsleur Japanese Language Program.
I think it's a great audio course that enables accurate pronounciation, good memory retention of material and important culture footnotes.
This lesson introduces some basic words like excuse me, you, I etc. The use of you and I in a sentence is often ommitted in Japanese conversation as they can usually be deduced from context.
goofypunter.blogspot.com /2006/04/pimsleur-japanese-1-unit-1-notes.html   (381 words)

  
 Biological Weapons Program - Japan
The Japanese, as the US learned at the end of World War II, had been making significant progress learning about traditional biological warfare agents like botulism and anthrax.
Ishii was initially given command of the "Togo Unit" of 300 men, which rapidly grew and acquired additional "cover" identities.
By 1945, the Japanese program had stockpiled 400 kilograms of anthrax to be used in a specially designed fragmentation bomb.
www.fas.org /nuke/guide/japan/bw   (631 words)

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