Unit 731

The discovery of bodies under Tokyo streets forced Japan to admit to using humans in horrific biological warfare tests. But why did the West deny this atrocity ever took place?

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"It makes you wonder really, how any government could deny or just cover-up or even ognore that things like this can and did happen (do they still happen today is the bigger qestion?)."

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Beneath the pavement lay a massive cache of human remains. The construction crew working at Shinjuku - Tokyo's bustling and prestigiuos redevelopment site - staggered back, speechless. News of the appalling discovery in 1989 swept across Tokyo like a tidal wave. Unable to conceal the truth any longer, the Japanese government was finally forced to reveal one of the most terrible secrets of WWII. Just metres away from the construction site lay the wartime lab of Lieutenant General Shiro Ishii, father of Japans top secret biological warfare (BW) programme UNIT 731.

The human guinea pigs used in Unit 731's experiments were taken from the base in Manchuria to Tokyo for further study. A t the close of the war, the bodies were hurriedly concealed in a mass grave, remaining there until their discovery in 1989. For 40 years, Unit 731's ghoulish activities remained Japan's most closely guarded secret.

Twisted Genius

The work of the unit could have remained untold had it not been for the discovery in a second-hand bookshop of notes made by a military officer from Unit 731. The documents meticulously detailed the biological experiments, and provided undeniable proff that humans were the test subjects used by Shiro Ishii and his team.

The young Ishii was a brilliant and grandiose Army microbiologist. A flamboyant personality, he soon attracted the attention of senior officers, and was assured rapid promotion. Aligning himself with ulra-nationalists in the Japanese War Ministry, Ishii pushed hard for the development of biological weapons.

When Japan invaded Manchuria in 1931, Ishii saw his opportunity . it was at Beiyinhe, 70km outside Harbin, that he began his vile experiments on human subjects. Given a large annual budget and 300 men, his first command assigned the cover name "Togo Unit".

Factories of Death

Known locally as the "Zhong Ma Prison Camp", the Unit 731 facility was built by Chinese forced labour. At the centre of the compound, a large building known as "Zhong Ma Castle" housed prisoners and a human experiment lab. Those chosen for human testings were referred to as "Marutas" - logs. Numbering upwards of 500, the prisoners ranged from Bandits and Criminals through to Suspicious persons. To their surprise, they were well fed and exercised regularly, but even this small humanity was inhumane. Healthy specimens were vital for good scientific results.

The experiments conducted almost defy belief. When Ishii wanted a human brain to experiment upon, guards were assigned to acquire the organ....Grabbing a prisoner, the guards would hold him down, while another cleaved open his skull with an axe. The organ was clumsily removed and rushed to Ishii's lab, and the remains of the sacrificed prisoner were disposed of in the camp crematorium.

Ishii's first BW experiment focused on contagious diseases such as anthrax and plague. In one test, Chinese guerrillas were injected with plague bacteria. Twelve days later, in infected prisoners were writhing with temperatures of 40 degrees C. One infected victim miraculously survived for 19 days before he was dissected alive.


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That alone is sick enough, but it didnt stop there and to think that they covered it up and denied all knowledge for so many years is , beyond words really.

For the rest of the story including:

Gruesome Experiments

Covering Up The Truth

The Secrets of Secrets

and finally

The Offical Enquiry


click here; www.mysteries.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk...




blackwidow

and you can see the fascination with scientific experiments on humans..... I'm sure it hasn't exactly stopped either....

Thats pretty shocking!!!
Is there any other country that have done this?

Have any of you heard the report about the Japanese scientists combining a human and rabbit embryo?

Yes i read that not so long ago.
Cant remember the site i seen it on...they even skecthed a picture of what it would look like...
kinda creepy i say..
I wonder what the point of this would be????

I'm not sure as far as the "point" goes, but it would certainly be cool.

that's #ing sick.
pretty close to the concentration camps.

One of the reasons that the black Plague is still around is because Japan tested Black PLague bombs over China.( in WWII) They consisted of ceramic pots filled with infected flys, that where dropped on parachutes. Upon impact with the ground the pots would break and bingo.......
This is more evidence of sick Jappanesse experimentation and lack of respect for life.