Japanese Unit 731 in WWII

[E E E E E E E E AR]

Stumbled across an article about Unit 731 and didn't believe it ... did a bit of googling and found loads of stuff. It's horriffic stuff that the Japanese did in WWII.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_731

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_war_crimes

What also surprises is me, is that I was never really taught about the Japanese side of the war at school (apart from a bit about Pearl Harbour). I had no idea that they'd killed about 30 million people. Wonder why it wasn't in the curriculum ... Germany just a bit closer to home?

 

[SORRY CJ]

There was a tv show about it I will have a dig and see if I can find it..


Found it......




Mr SCJ

 

[morse1001]

There is a book of the same name which goes into great detail.

 

[SORRY CJ]

There is a book of the same name which goes into great detail.

There are quite a few.


LINKY

Mr SCJ

 

[morse1001]

This is the one that I was thinking of!

 

[Ex-Bay]

These days, we have International Law which >should< preclude it happening again; at lease, in most of the world. . .
Of course, the information was of such high value, the USA is reputed to have got the OC 731 to work for them.
I think it's probably more true than not.

 

[SupportiveCivvy]

Ishi escaped a war crimes trial because he told the US that he had considerable "research information" from the large scale testing of biological weapons on a human population that the US didn't have, nor could ever legally obtain. If memory serves from a course taken some years ago, many of the staff of Unit 731 also escaped being tried for war crimes, the justification being that the US needed the information to match and-or combat BW programmes by the FSU. Ishi died of throat cancer in 1959.