Japan's Dirty Little Secret

The old man was a member of Unit 731.

Harbin, once home to the world's largest biological weapons research facility.

One of the things they worked on was germ warfare.

Thousands of prisoners were infected with disease. One then became sick they were cut open while still alive.

The prisoners were called logs. Once dead they took the bodies next door and chopped them up.

The disease were spread throughout China and about 250,000 people died from the the effects.

A meeting of victims and relatives to demand justice. The guy from above speaks and apologizes for what he did. Back in Japan, other former members of Unit 731 consider the guy a traitor and claim he was brainwashed by the Chinese. They still think what they did was good.

His view. He was also involved with Unit 731.

When the war was lost he destroyed evidence and left-over prisoners.

Around 12,000 died at that center. The guy feels no remorse at all.

Unbelievable.

At Yasakuni shrine.

A university professor there who says there was no such thing as Unit 731 and the Nanking massacre.

A museum has been built in Harbin and about 150,000 visit each year.

It's explained how the history of WWII is barely covered if at all in Japanese schools, and little if anything is taught about the bad things the Japanese did.

One of more than 900 ultra-nationalist groups in Japan. This one has a caravan and is broadcasting messages on their loud speakers.

In the war crime trials after the war none of Unit 731's leaders were charged with any crime. The U.S. had made a deal of no charges in exchange for the results of the unit's experiments. The members of the unit ended up in prestigious positions in medical institutions, etc.



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