The Horror of Unit 731 (You Tube)

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The film notes that the U.S. covered up the atrocities in exchange for the medical data.

It talks about the Japanese war against China.

Apparently one of the reason Japan started Unit 731 was to have a way to deal with the biological weapons that the Soviet Union had. A lot of the Japanese military had wanted to go to war with Russia.

The man behind Unit 731, Shiro Ishii. Japan had signed the Geneva Protocols, promising not to use biological weapons, but their signature didn't mean anything. He was rich and arrogant, and had been wanting to do biological warfare research for a long time.

Then it goes into how much Hirohito knew, and how some of his relatives took an active part in the program. Ishii put the place in China since he had so many potential research 'volunteers' there. The Japanese government provided him unlimited funds.

The scientists there referred to their victims as logs, and told the nearby townspeople that the place was a lumber mill.

This guy worked there and describes some of what they did. Prisoners were infected with deadly diseases and dissected alive. They also did frostbite tests on prisoners.

The experiments were done on men, woman and children. The people who worked there felt that they were not responsible, that they were just following orders from above. They actually field-tested some of their weapons on villages and cities in China. Many tens of thousands died due to the tests.v

This guy flew planes for them that would spread plague-infected fleas. Some of the soldiers gave chocolates laced with anthrax to children. 1600 Japanese soldiers and scientists died as a result of mishandling the various toxic biological materials.

Then they developed ceramic bombs that they could fill with fleas, etc. The bombs would be dropped on nearby villages, then Japanese from the unit would come to the villages and examine the victims.

The Japanese also experimented on American POWs.

The balloon bomb program was considered for modification so it could carry plague and other deadly biological diseases.

The U.S. made an agree not to prosecute Isshi and the others in exchange for the data his team had collected from their experiments.

More people are learning about the horrors of the unit and how those who were responsible for it got off free.

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