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  Doctors of Depravity | the Daily Mail
The answer is that the Japanese were allowed to erase Unit 731 from the archives by the American government, which wanted Ishii's biological warfare findings for itself.
Unit 731 was not part of the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal.
It does not have the specimens kept at Unit 731: the jars containing feet, heads and internal organs, all neatly labelled; or the six-foot-high glass jar in which the naked body of a Western man, cut vertically in two pieces, was pickled in formaldehyde.
www.dailymail.co.uk /pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=439776&in_page_id=1770   (3271 words)

  
  Unit 731 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Unit 731 was one of many units used by the Japanese to research biological warfare and is to this day used as a general term to describe the practice.
The war crimes committed by Unit 731 are but some examples of those the Imperial Japanese Army carried out from their occupation of Manchuria in 1931 to the end of World War II in 1945.
In August 2002, the Tokyo District Court acknowledged the existence of Unit 731 and its biological warfare activities but ruled that all compensation issues were settled by the Joint Communique of the Government of Japan and the Government of the People's Republic of China of September 29, 1972.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Unit_731   (2452 words)

  
 Unit - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Units of measurement, a fundamental quantity of measurement
Unit of alcohol, 10 millilitres of pure ethanol in the UK In biochemistry, unit is the measure of enzyme activity.
Unit (ring theory), an element that is invertible with respect to ring multiplication
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 Unit 731
Unit 731 was a secret military medical unit of the Imperial Japanese Army[?] that researched biological warfare and other topics through human experimentation[?] during the Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945) and World War II era.
The unit based in Ping Fang[?], near the city of Harbin in northeastern China, the region which was sometimes referred to as Manchuria or Manchukuo.
Unit 731 activities are denied[?] by right-wing nationalist Japanese historians, who say they are fabrications by Chinese propaganda.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/un/Unit_731.html   (400 words)

  
 Unit 731 - A Half Century of Denial
Unit 731's sprawling headquarters were at Pingfan - completed with airport, railway stations and dungeons - on the outskirts of Harbin.
On a sunny day in June this year, on the steps of cellar, Han Xiao, Chinas leading expert on Unit 731, confirmed what the Department of Veterans Affairs has long denied: that American POWs in Mukden (Shenyang) were injected in 1943 with various bacteria to test their immunity.
A member of Unit 731, Nobuo Kamaden, speaking on the record for the first time, told U.S. News that his main job at Pingfan was to breed plague bacteria.
www.technologyartist.com /unit_731   (879 words)

  
 Japan's Unit 731 on germ warfare
The unit was supposed to produce biological weapons that could be transported by balloon to the United States -- not a far-fetched idea, since Japan succeeded in lofting hundreds of incendiary balloons during the war that ignited forest fires in Oregon and Montana.
Unit 731 physicians, who were ordered to prepare Japanese soldiers to eventually fight the United States in cold regions like Alaska, ordered victims to be stripped to their underwear and tied to poles outside during the winter months when temperatures in Harbin fall to minus 40 degrees Fahrenheit.
Unit 731 found a ready supply of human guinea pigs: members of resistance movements, children who strayed too close to the laboratory, a teenager found carrying a pistol that she said was needed for her own protection.
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 History Channel Classroom:
It is in this place, Unit 731, that Ishii and his scientists conducted some of the most horrific war crimes of the 20th century.
The goal of Unit 731 was to experiment with germ warfare, with the ultimate aim of using these weapons on the United States during the war.
Unit 731 was shrouded in secrecy during World War II and remained so until recently.
www.historychannel.com /classroom/admin/study_guide/archives/thc_guide.0566.html   (477 words)

  
 ZNet |Japan | Unit 731 and the Japanese Imperial Army's Biological Warfare Program
The 731 scientists, who were evacuated to Japan prior to the defeat, continued their careers as eminent figures in the postwar medical and scientific establishment.
Unit 731 was the first of several secret, detached units created as extensions of the research lab; the units served as field laboratories and test sites for developing biological weapons, culminating in the experimental use of biological weapons on Chinese cities.
(Unit 1855 was established in Beijing on February 9, 1938; Unit 1644 in Nanjing on April 18, 1939; and Unit 8604 in Guangzhou on April 8, 1939).
www.zmag.org /content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=17&ItemID=9205   (4155 words)

  
 Unit 731
We didn’t know what that unit did, but we knew that it was a frightening unit and that once you were sent there, you never came back alive,” he said.
While he was not directly involved in experiments conducted by Unit 731, he said he also bore responsibility as the unit would not have been able to operate without people like him.
All documents related to Unit 731, including a list of all Chinese sent by the kemplei-tai to the unit, were destroyed at the end of the war.
www.geocities.com /heartland/plains/5850/deathcamp.html   (3596 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Programmes | Correspondent | Unit 731: Japan's biological force
Unit 731 was a special division of the Japanese Army, a scientific and military elite.
Unit 731 was the world's largest and most comprehensive biological warfare programme.
Inside Unit 731 the Japanese conducted research and human experimentation on a scale unlike any in the history of humankind.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/programmes/correspondent/1796044.stm   (1026 words)

  
 Unit - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
Unit of measurement or physical unit, a fundamental quantity of measurement in science or engineering.
Unit of alcohol, 10 millilitres of pure ethanol in the UK.
In category theory, there is a natural transformation called the unit from the identity functor to the composition of two adjoint functors, q.v.
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 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.
If there was anything positive out of the decision for the Chinese, it was that for the first time, a Japanese court had acknowledged that Unit 731 and other units had engaged in "cruel and inhumane" biological warfare in China, costing many lives.
The immunity granted to those in Unit 731 saw the doctors involved return to mainstream Japanese society.
www.theage.com.au /articles/2002/08/28/1030508070534.html   (1605 words)

  
 Unit 731   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
In October of 1940, Unit 731 dropped plague germs mixed with wheat, corn, cloth, and cotton from the air onto the city of Ningbo.
However, Professor Yoshimura of the Pingfang sector of Unit 731, developed a refrigerator which would allow him to freeze his human subjects all year long, and could generate temperatures as low as negative seventy degrees Celsius, while the absolute lowest recorded temperatures in Manchuria were around negative thirty degrees Celsius.
Unit 731 is one of history’s best kept secrets — in addition to being horrifically inhumane and unnecessary, was, in fact, the antithesis of science.
www.people.fas.harvard.edu /~jsilver/unit731.html   (2339 words)

  
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 Unit 731 - China-related Topics UM-UP - China-Related Topics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
The acts of Unit 731 are only one of many major war crimes committed by the Imperial Japanese Army from the occupation of Manchuria in 1931 to the end of World War II in 1945, during which over 15 million Chinese, Korean, Filippino, Indonesian, Burmese, Indochinese civilians, Pacific Islanders and Allied POWs were killed.
The United States believed that the research data was valuable because the allies had never conducted this type of human experimentation.
Unit 731 activities are denialdenied by right-wing nationalist history of JapanJapanese historians, who say they are fabrications by Chinese propaganda.
www.famouschinese.com /virtual/Unit_731   (1339 words)

  
 Unit 731 - Research and Bump List. Gets Disturbing, Read at Your Own Risk
United States investigators reportedly cut a deal with them, promising complete immunity in exchange for their data, which was hidden from the War Crimes Tribunal and confined solely to the intelligence community.
This new research station was called Unit 731 and was disguised as a water-purification facility named, “Epidemic Prevention and Water Supply Unit of the Kwantung Army.” Unit 731 was comprised of 150 buildings surrounded by a wall and a dry moat, as well as high voltage wires, which did not resemble a water-purification facility.
Unit 731 was deliberately burned and all evidence destroyed including the study subjects called Marutas, which translates as logs of wood, all in the attempt to hide what they had done.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-backroom/1521072/posts   (18412 words)

  
 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.
Toshimi Mizobuchi, who was an instructor for new recruits in Unit 731, said the idea was to use 20 of the 500 new troops who arrived in Harbin in July 1945.
www.ww2pacific.com /unit731.html   (2093 words)

  
 AII POW-MIA Unit 731
Recently, by combining the surviving documents of Unit 731 and the Japanese government, accounts of surviving POWs and civilians, and the accounts of surviving members of Unit 731, we are beginning to recognize the despicable level of barabarism that was engaged in these horrorific places...
BE OFFENDED by the actions of power, hate, greed, intolerance and ignorance that allowed an entity such as Unit 731 to be created and to exist.
BE OFFENDED by the actions of the United States, to protect the murderers of Unit 731, and offer them immunity from prosecution in exchange for the documentation and data accrued by this crime against humanity.
www.aiipowmia.com /731/731caveat.html   (547 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Unit 731: Testimony; Japan's Wartime Human Experimentation and the Post-War Cover-Up: Japan's Wartime Human ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
In the first part of Unit 731: Testimony, author Hal Gold draws upon a painstakingly accumulated reservoir of sources to construct a portrait of the Imperial Japanese Army's most notorious medical unit, giving an overview of its history and detailing its most shocking activities.
Unit 731: Testimony represents an essential addition to the growing body of literature on the still-unfolding story of one of the most infamous military outfits in modern history.
Anyway, main point of the accusers of the atrocities of the unit 731 lies on the barbaric acts of experiments on living human beings.
www.amazon.ca /Unit-731-Testimony-Experimentation-Cover-Up/dp/4900737399   (2138 words)

  
 Unit 731 - Preliminary Review
Since 1940, in Chinese theater, Ishii Shiro had led his Unit 731 to engage in biological warfare by attacking Ningpo, Chinhua, Chuchou of Chechiang province (during the Japanese-Soviet war at Nomonhan, Mongolia in the summer of 1939, Unit 731 was dispatched to the front to make bacterial assault).
In the United States, the first person who uncovered serious atrocities committed by Unit 731 and raised the issue of possible U.S. cover-up was John W. Powell, Jr.
So far as atrocities committed by Unit 731 are concerned, the most shocking revelation made by Kristof may be: (1) without giving anesthetic to the victim, vivisection was performed by Unit 731 doctors; (2) even three-day old baby was used for experimentation; and (3) Japan planned to use biological warfare against the United States.
www.nesa.org.uk /html/unit_731_-_preliminary_review.htm   (5296 words)

  
 Search Tuna Report for UNIT 731   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
Some of the most gruesome atrocities of World War II medical experiments on Chinese, Russian and American prisoners were committed in China by Japan's infamous Unit 731 Fifty Years later, the Japanese continue to deny or minimize this part of their wartime record, refused demands for a clear apology.
The Asian Auschwitz Of Unit 731 - Theage.com.au...
The Chief Of Unit 731, Shiro Ishii, Was Born On June 25th, 1892, In A Rich Family....
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 Unit 731 - Page 3
According to studies almost all the germ units of the Japanese aggressors used living human beings to conduct germ weapon tests and researches on germ warfare and mass-produced germ weaponry.
Unit 731 was a secretive detachment of the Japanese invading troops which experimented on live humans in order to develop germ weapons, such as bubonic plague, typhoid, anthrax and cholera.
The reports in the book reveal that Unit 731, established by the Imperial Japanese Army in 1936, developed many biological weapons using plague, anthrax and other bacteria, and conducted related human experiments during the war, the daily said.
www.physicsforums.com /showthread.php?t=85429&page=3   (7034 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Japan court rejects germ warfare case
The group's lawyers said they were encouraged that the judges had accepted the existence of the biological warfare unit and the acts it had performed.
Unit 731's activities were covered up following World War II Witnesses told how Japanese aircraft sprayed a mixture of fleas and wheat grain over villagers in eastern China in 1940 and 1941.
Unit 731's role was covered up after the war and none of its members were charged, following an agreement with the occupying American forces.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/asia-pacific/2218266.stm   (418 words)

  
 731??
A group of Chinese relatives of the victims of vivisection and other barbaric acts of Japan's notorious Unit 731 filed a law suit against the Japanese government for compensation for the crimes committed by the Japanese.
He was caught and, after months of torture by the Japanese military police, was sent to Unit 731 for germ experimentation and an agonizing death.
Although the Unit 731 Museum in Harbin has a photo of Sim and his name is on the list of the vivisection victims, Sim's Korean nationality has not been established until the recent discovery of two Japanese military police documents in China.
www.kimsoft.com /2002/731.htm   (1872 words)

  
 Wikinfo | Unit 731
It was based in Pingfan, near the city of Harbin in northeastern China, the region which was sometimes referred to as Manchuria or Manchukuo.
Despite this it should be remembered that Japan at the start of the 21st Century is a stable democracy and, in other respects fairly liberal.
Images, some of which are used under the doctrine of Fair use or used with permission, may not be available.
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