Sixty-six years after World War II, Japanese officials are digging up a medical school site in Japan that may hold human remains from Imperial Japan’s wartime program of ghastly experiments on living prisoners.
The program was called Unit 731. Most of its horrifying work was done in China, but some of its “specimens” were sent to Japan.
Unit 731, based in Harbin in northern China, conducted experiments on tens of thousands of mostly Chinese and Korean prisoners, and a small number of Allied prisoners of war. Some historians estimate up to 250,000 people were subjected to experiments. The remains of some are thought to have been transported from China to Tokyo for analysis.According to historical accounts, male and female prisoners, named "logs" by their torturers, were subjected to vivisection without anaesthesia after they had been deliberately infected with diseases such as typhus and cholera. Some had limbs amputated or organs removed.
Remember, defeating Japan in World War II wasn’t necessary to avenge Pearl Harbor. Defeating Japan was necessary to stop that dictatorship’s horrors on many fronts.
Frank Warner
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