Unit 731: Japan's Secret Biological Warfare in World War II

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There are unit members who were known to be interned at the Fushun War Criminals Management Centre and Taiyuan War Criminals Management Centre after the war, who then went on to be repatriated to Japan and founded the Association of Returnees from China and testified about Unit 731 and the crimes perpetrated there.

Silvester, Christopher (2006-04-29). "Electrocuted, gassed, frozen, boiled alive". Daily Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Archived from the original on 2022-01-10 . Retrieved 2019-05-31. In April2018, the National Archives of Japan disclosed a nearly complete list of 3,607members of Unit731 to Katsuo Nishiyama, a professor at Shiga University of Medical Science. Nishiyama reportedly intended to publish the list online to encourage further study into the unit. [97]Loveridge, Lynzee (February 10, 2020). "My Hero Academia Manga Updated With Villain's New Name". Anime News Network. Archived from the original on June 20, 2020 . Retrieved November 11, 2020. The author Seiichi Morimura published The Devil's Gluttony [ ja] (悪魔の飽食) in 1981, followed by The Devil's Gluttony: A Sequel in 1983. These books purported to reveal the "true" operations of Unit731, but falsely attributed unrelated photos to the Unit, which raised questions about their accuracy. [120] [121] Unit 731’s legacy is one of a useless, fanciful, extravagant, and sadistic indulgence that accomplished nothing politically or militarily for Japan, and, in terms of its research, nothing for the United States.

Names of 3,607 members of Imperial Japanese Army's notorious Unit 731 released by national archives". The Japan Times. April 16, 2018. Archived from the original on April 18, 2018 . Retrieved April 17, 2018.

Additionally, Unit731 Youth Corps member Yoshio Shinozuka testified that his friend junior assistant Mitsuo Hirakawa was vivisected as a result of being accidentally infected with plague. [62] Known unit members Unit 731" (2009), American thrash metal band Slayer. Song on the album World Painted Blood, describing the events and atrocities that occurred at Unit731 During the COVID-19 pandemic, some scientists called for experimental data from Unit 731 to be publicly released to the international medical community because the data available on human-pathogen interactions could have helped epidemiologists with pandemic control. [127] The information has been withheld by both the US and Japanese government.

Through Gobi and Khingan [ ru] (1981); Coproduction of USSR, Mongolia, Eastern Germany. Miniseries (two episodes).It is against this enemy that Japan, with triumphant exaltation, may cry Banzai. For it is against this enemy that she has attained her most signal victories….” Unit 731 – Did the Emperor Know? (1985) Television South documentary first broadcast on 13August. [141]