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Many written reports and testimonies collected by the Australian War Crimes Section of the Tokyo tribunal, and investigated by prosecutor William Webb (the future Judge-in-Chief), indicate that Japanese personnel in many parts of Asia and the Pacific committed acts of cannibalism against Allied prisoners of war. In many cases this was inspired by ever-increasing Allied attacks on Japanese supply lines, and the death and illness of Japanese personnel as a result of hunger. However, according to historian Yuki Tanaka: "cannibalism was often a systematic activity conducted by whole squads and under the command of officers".[56] This frequently involved murder for the purpose of securing bodies. For example, an Indian POW, Havildar Changdi Ram, testified that: "[on November 12, 1944] the Kempeitai beheaded [an Allied] pilot. I saw this from behind a tree and watched some of the Japanese cut flesh from his arms, legs, hips, buttocks and carry it off to their quarters... They cut it [into] small pieces and fried it."[57]
Originally posted by Skywatcher2011
reply to post by usmc858
One of the more disturbing facts about the whole experimentation process is the fact they dissected people alive without any anesthesia. That itself is inhumane nevermind frying someone's flesh right after removing it.
Originally posted by usmc858
Originally posted by Skywatcher2011
reply to post by usmc858
One of the more disturbing facts about the whole experimentation process is the fact they dissected people alive without any anesthesia. That itself is inhumane nevermind frying someone's flesh right after removing it.
Yeah, that stuff is really bad, I couldn't even imagine. It makes me realize why a lot of pacific campaign veterans I've talked to in the past still had a very strong distrust and "grudge" against the Japanese.
As many as 250,000 were victims of experiments Japan began excavations yesterday at a former army medical school to search for human remains linked to a notorious World War II program that allegedly conducted biological warfare in China and live experiments on foreign prisoners of war.
There is no certainty the excavation will unearth anything, but it is a sign that the government is open to the possibility of facing its long-kept wartime secrets, including the experiments conducted by the military's shadowy Unit 731. Its activities have never been officially acknowledged by the government even though historians and participants have documented them.
Historians estimate the number of the unit's victims from the thousands to as many as 250,000 - mostly Chinese but they also may have included other nationalities. They believe some bodily remains of victims were transferred from China to Tokyo for analysis.
The ministry concluded that the bones could not be directly linked to Unit 731. It said the remains were mostly of non-Japanese Asians and were likely from bodies used in 'medical education' or brought back from the war zone for analysis at the medical school.
The physicians were granted immunity by American Gen. Douglas MacArthur in exchange for revealing all they'd learned on biological warfare before the information got into the hands of the Soviets. The Soviets prosecuted and imprisoned a handful of the soldiers and physicians of Unit 731, while Gen. Ishii either moved to Maryland or stayed in Japan, until he died of throat cancer in 1959.
Originally posted by ShadowAngel85
In South Korea school kids get taught that Japan is the prime-evil country.
The site is close to another area where a mass grave of dozens of possible war-experiment victims was uncovered in 1989 during the construction of a Health Ministry research institute.
Any remains found at the planned excavation site would have a stronger connection to Unit 731, said Keiichi Tsuneishi, a Kanagawa University history professor and expert on biological warfare.
The site being excavated in Tokyo is close to another where fragments of bone, many showing saw marks, were found in 1989.
Then the health ministry concluded that they could not be linked to Unit 731, but had been brought to Japan for "medical education".
Requests for DNA testing of the bones from Chinese families whose relatives are believed to have fallen victim to medical experiments at Unit 731 have since been refused.
Japanese army doctor Shiro Ishii ran the notorious Unit 731 and was responsible for gruesome human experiments designed to develop Japan's germ warfare systems. Like his Nazi counterpart, Josef Mengele, Ishii never faced justice.
He escaped prosecution after the war because the United States offered immunity in return for information on the programmes on humans that they were unable to carry out themselves. He was allowed to continue his medical research in Japan after the war and died of natural causes in 1959, aged 67.
As result of Ishii's experiments, Japan became a world leader in germ warfare.
Activists campaigning for the excavation say that dozens of bodies were buried under the site at the end of the Second World War in an effort to cover up biological tests on prisoners, some dissected while still alive.
"They dug a hole 10 metres deep and for a month after Japan's surrender they threw bodies into it," recalled Toyo Ishii, 88, a former nurse who began speaking out about what she saw after retiring.
"The bodies included those of people who had been used in experiments to test the effects of germs."
Originally posted by stealthyaroura
Also it does not surprise me that they were granted immunity
as long as they handed over there "medical findings" to other
countries such as the US & UK no doubt.
Leading experts in China recently revealed that at least 3,000 people were killed by germ warfare experiments the Japanese army's notorious Unit 731 conducted in its headquarters in Harbin, capital of northeast China's Heilongjiang province, from 1939 to 1945 during the Japanese invasion of China.
Researchers have acquired detailed information on the victims, which is regarded as direct evidence of the atrocity of Japanese troops in China. Information on the victims is explicit, including the name, birthplace, age, occupation, address, educational background and even a photo of each victim.
To cover up its crimes, Unit 731 destroyed most documents relating to the germ experiments when the Japanese fled China. During the past ten years, Chinese researchers have uncovered documents from the unit, including some related to the biochemical tests.
Experts say the large amount of documents and testimonies prove that experiments were carried out on Mongolians, Koreans, Russians, British and Dutch, but mostly Chinese.