The horrors of Japan's WWII 'human experiments unit'

[micromachine]

War crimes: A human 'subject', seemingly a young Chinese civilian, is subjected to an unknown form of bacteriological test at Unit 731, built to conduct research into germ warfare, weapons capabilities and the limits of the human body

Human guinea-pigs: Frostbitten hands of a Chinese prisoner at Unit 731, where scientists would test the effects of hypothermia and gangrene on human subjects


The harrowing tale of how Japan carried out a series of horrific human experiments under the guise of 'warfare research' during World War II is told in a new book.

More than 3,000 people - mostly Chinese civilians, but also Russian, British and American POWs - were dissected alive, infected with bubonic plague and used as human guinea-pigs for frost-bite treatments.

Unit 731 was built in 1936 in modern-day Harbin, northeastern China, for the Japanese Imperial Army to conduct research into germ warfare, weapons capabilities and the limits of the human body...........

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...y-Japans-WWII-human-experiments-Unit-731.html

 

[virus]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_9420

Unit Oka 9420 was the central Epidemic Prevention and Water Purification Department of the Southern Expeditionary Army Group of the Imperial Japanese Army. Formed in 1942 to support the Japanese Southern Army, Unit 9420 consisted of two units; the Umeoka Unit, which specialized in the plague, and the Kono Unit, which specialized in malaria. Most of its work involved preventing the spread of disease in Singapore.[1]
Commanded by Major General Kitagawa Masataka, the unit was headquartered in the Permai Hospital in Tampoi, Johor, near the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, 13 km northeast of Johor Bahru and Singapore,[2] with some evidence that it also had sub-units operating in Thailand and working on unknown diseases. Coupled with its work on the plague, the unit was also responsible for rat catching.
According to the testimony of politician Othman Wok, Singapore was also an important biological weapons base. A laboratory was established there within days of the Japanese conquest. It became one of the largest of the BW installations outside of mainland China. Initially, Unit 9420 was under the command of Hareyama Yoshio, but in 1942, Lieutenant Colonel Naito Ryoichi, one of Ishii’s most trusted colleagues, assumed control of the facility for several years. It was staffed with approximately 150 physicians and scientists, and produced huge quantities of pathogens annually. Naito and his staff worked primarily with typhus, plague, and pesticides. It is unknown whether Singapore was a BW research facility, or whether it was simply a laboratory employed to produce pathogens for use elsewhere.[3]

 

[glockman]

Germany and Japan committed a lot of atrocities during the war, horrific things. And most of those responsible were brought to justice and executed. Serves those motherfuckers right.

 

[LaoTze]

Germany and Japan committed a lot of atrocities during the war, horrific things. And most of those responsible were brought to justice and executed. Serves those motherfuckers right.

Not a single one from that Japanese Unit 731 were prosecuted. The japanese head and all his staff given immunity by USA.
And let them go laughing and laughing on way to their banks as well.

 

[glockman]

Not a single one from that Japanese Unit 731 were prosecuted. The japanese head and all his staff given immunity by USA.
And let them go laughing and laughing on way to their banks as well.

Some were given immunity by MacArthur because they wanted to tap on their expertise. Others were arrested and prosecuted by the Russians.

 

[knowwhatyouwantinlife]

Germany and Japan committed a lot of atrocities during the war, horrific things. And most of those responsible were brought to justice and executed. Serves those motherfuckers right.

U missed out the ottoman empire and the death march of the armenians

 

[hofmann]

RIP the souls who gave their life for science.

The Japanese were more productive in their use of human lives as compared to the Germans who just gassed the lot.

In a godless world, they all got away.

 

[GramStroker]

Japan already had not one but two atomic bombs dropped on them.

Let the horrors of war lay buried lah.

 

[LaoTze]

Japan already had not one but two atomic bombs dropped on them.

Let the horrors of war lay buried lah.

What a wasted chance to fuck Japs upside down and inside out.
After nuking Japan, they should have gone on with Operation Downfall designed to kill 10 miilions ++ Japs
Dont accept the surrender of Japan at all.
And then divide Japan the way Berlin was divided.
Yasakuni Shrine be razed to the fucking ground and public toilet placed there.
Making sure the horrors of war done by Japs in Nanjing Massacre and Unit 731 nver be forgotten by the fucking japs

 

[Sideswipe]

the USA knew that the atomic bombs would be successfully developed on Jan 1st 1945, and they were successfully tested on July 1945, and ready to be used on Aug 1st 1945. the USA had just 2 atomic bombs at that time, and dropped them on Japan, just 5 days after the bombs were made ready. dropping the atomic bombs on Japan were very controversial, and it is doubtful whether the Americans would want to drop a 3 and 4 atomic bombs on Japan if the Japanese refused to surrender. ironically, the 2 atomic bombs gave the Japanese an easy way out, a great excuse to surrender, and end the war. a conventional war invasion of Japan would result in 10 times more civilian casualties and the total destruction of the country at the end.

 

[LaoTze]

What a wasted chance to fuck Japs upside down and inside out.
After nuking Japan, they should have gone on with Operation Downfall designed to kill 10 miilions ++ Japs
Dont accept the surrender of Japan at all.
And then divide Japan the way Berlin was divided.
Yasakuni Shrine be razed to the fucking ground and public toilet placed there.
Making sure the horrors of war done by Japs in Nanjing Massacre and Unit 731 nver be forgotten by the fucking japs