TOKYO, Aug. 16 (Xinhua) -- "So many 'marutas' died, and the Japanese soldiers were also dissected. I often wonder why on earth Unit 731 had done so many evil things?" asked a Japanese veteran who ...

It's a scene from a nightmare. Captured prisoners are purposely infected with deadly diseases, from plague to cholera and tuberculosis, exposed to freezing temperatures, given poisoned food, dissected ...

Chinese media representatives swarmed around a small-statured man as he apologized before a memorial monument on the outskirts of the northeastern city of Harbin last August. “I did something reckless ...

IIDA, Nagano Prefecture—Hideo Shimizu has been frustrated by the reluctance of a peace memorial museum here to display panels about the infamous Unit 731, where he worked during World War II. The ...

In August 1945, as Soviet troops closed in on Japanese positions in occupied China, 14-year-old Hideo Shimizu was given a grim task: Collect and dispose the burnt bones of prisoners who had been ...

Japan had long denied it engaged in germ warfare in China during World War II. But the situation took a shift in August 2002 when 180 Chinese victims sought compensation from the Japanese government.

Two Versions of Hell is both a documentary about Japan's World War Two biological weapons facility, Unit 731, and a demonstration of the power of historical revisionism.

In 1937 Japan created Unit 731 as a medical engineering unit responsible for testing, producing and storing biological weapons, as well as using these on humans to test theories and develop vaccines ...

The latest stories and articles on Unit 731, a covert military unit of the Imperial Japanese Army, based in the Pingfang District of Harbin, Manchukuo, now Northeast China. Its primary mission was ...

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AN abandoned bunker used for monstrous experiments on thousands of women and children by a group of sadistic scientists has been unearthed after 78 years. The World War II “horror bunker” was ...